Error-reductionism: the idea that errors are reducible, i.e., explainable in terms of causes and parts such as cognitive biases and bad micro-habits.
Error-reductionism: philosophical reductionism (the world is physical, decomposable, lawful, understandable, not inherently mysterious or magical) combined with an error theory about non-reductionist ideas. We have Bayesianism as a principled (reductive) account of science; we don’t need to call Thor mean names like “meaningless” or say he’s in a separate magisterium from science. We’re allowed to say those ideas were just wrong. We learn about the world by looking at the world and seeing what stuff happens and what methods work — not by applying a priori definitions of “what hypotheses sound sciencey to me”.
Ooh I like that, although it is a bit long and it contains a hyphen. The vocalization is also going to be a bit awkward (too many r’s in a row). We could shorten in to erreductionist since to err means the same thing, but you do lose some clarity.
“LessWrongers” doesn’t sound fancy and Latinate enough to be an intellectual movement. We need something like “error-reductionists”.
Error-reductionism: the idea that error is inevitable, but we’re trying to reduce how much. Probabilism, perpetual beta, and ambition/audacity/grit.
Error-reductionism: the idea that errors are reducible, i.e., explainable in terms of causes and parts such as cognitive biases and bad micro-habits.
Error-reductionism: philosophical reductionism (the world is physical, decomposable, lawful, understandable, not inherently mysterious or magical) combined with an error theory about non-reductionist ideas. We have Bayesianism as a principled (reductive) account of science; we don’t need to call Thor mean names like “meaningless” or say he’s in a separate magisterium from science. We’re allowed to say those ideas were just wrong. We learn about the world by looking at the world and seeing what stuff happens and what methods work — not by applying a priori definitions of “what hypotheses sound sciencey to me”.
Ooh I like that, although it is a bit long and it contains a hyphen. The vocalization is also going to be a bit awkward (too many r’s in a row). We could shorten in to erreductionist since to err means the same thing, but you do lose some clarity.