I think, in general, the LW community often errs by placing too much weight on a maxentropy prior as opposed to letting heuristics or traditions have at least some input. Still, it’s probably an overcorrection that comes in handy sometimes; the rest of the world massively overvalues heuristics and tradition, so there are whole areas of possibility-space that get massively underexplored, and LW may as well spend most of its time in those areas.
You could be right about the LW tendency to err… but this thread isn’t the place where it springs to mind as a possible problem! I am almost certain that neither the EEA nor current circumstance are such that heuristics and tradition are likely to give useful decisions about clone trenches.
I think, in general, the LW community often errs by placing too much weight on a maxentropy prior as opposed to letting heuristics or traditions have at least some input. Still, it’s probably an overcorrection that comes in handy sometimes; the rest of the world massively overvalues heuristics and tradition, so there are whole areas of possibility-space that get massively underexplored, and LW may as well spend most of its time in those areas.
You could be right about the LW tendency to err… but this thread isn’t the place where it springs to mind as a possible problem! I am almost certain that neither the EEA nor current circumstance are such that heuristics and tradition are likely to give useful decisions about clone trenches.