very insightful, but something sets me on edge that truthseeking is being compared by central example to trying to hurt other humans. My intuition is that that will leak unhealthy metaphor, but I also don’t explicitly see how it would do so and therefore can’t currently give more detail. (this may have something to do with my waking up with a headache.)
I suppose there are a lot more Void metaphors in the Tao Te Ching that we could borrow instead, although maybe not all of them are as apt. Yudkowsky likened rationality to a martial art in the Sequences. It’s along the same theme as the rest of that. Martial arts are centered around fighting, which can involve hurting other humans, but more as a pragmatic means to an end rather than, say, torture.
very insightful, but something sets me on edge that truthseeking is being compared by central example to trying to hurt other humans. My intuition is that that will leak unhealthy metaphor, but I also don’t explicitly see how it would do so and therefore can’t currently give more detail. (this may have something to do with my waking up with a headache.)
I suppose there are a lot more Void metaphors in the Tao Te Ching that we could borrow instead, although maybe not all of them are as apt. Yudkowsky likened rationality to a martial art in the Sequences. It’s along the same theme as the rest of that. Martial arts are centered around fighting, which can involve hurting other humans, but more as a pragmatic means to an end rather than, say, torture.