Perhaps there should be a place illustrating the differences between LW terms and academic terms of the same name—besides this there’s also game theory and I feel like I’ve seen others as well (though I can’t remember what they were).
“Metaethics” is another example of this; sometimes it gets used around here to mean “high-level normative ethics” (and in fact the rationalist newsletter just uses it as the section header for anything ethics-related).
Perhaps there should be a place illustrating the differences between LW terms and academic terms of the same name—besides this there’s also game theory and I feel like I’ve seen others as well (though I can’t remember what they were).
“Metaethics” is another example of this; sometimes it gets used around here to mean “high-level normative ethics” (and in fact the rationalist newsletter just uses it as the section header for anything ethics-related).