If you have some specific disagreement, I find it odd you did not express it then.
I have expressed it, previously.
And when the points have come up before, I’ve criticized them. Eliezer seems to have a very deep need for known absolutes. But the ‘absolutes’ he references are contingent and uncertain. For example, he frequently conflates the nature of the universe and our ideas about what the nature of the universe is. The first is consistent and universal, while the second is not, but he persists in speaking as though we had access to eternal truth. All we have is our experiences and our attempts to account for them.
Or look at this case, in which he confuses ultimate reality and our attempts to model it. The question he’s asking is absurd, because the concept he’s using is meaningless outside of the context it’s defined in. “If X, then Y” statements are dependent upon our models—they can be said to be true to the degree that they express the output of our understanding. “If I drop an egg on the floor, then it will break” is an essentially-accurate claim even if I don’t get around to dropping an egg.
And when the points have come up before, I’ve criticized them. Eliezer seems to have a very deep need for known absolutes. But the ‘absolutes’ he references are contingent and uncertain. For example, he frequently conflates the nature of the universe and our ideas about what the nature of the universe is. The first is consistent and universal, while the second is not, but he persists in speaking as though we had access to eternal truth. All we have is our experiences and our attempts to account for them.
Or look at this case, in which he confuses ultimate reality and our attempts to model it. The question he’s asking is absurd, because the concept he’s using is meaningless outside of the context it’s defined in. “If X, then Y” statements are dependent upon our models—they can be said to be true to the degree that they express the output of our understanding. “If I drop an egg on the floor, then it will break” is an essentially-accurate claim even if I don’t get around to dropping an egg.