Bay area rationalism claims to be new, but is in many respects a rehash of old ideas like logical positivism.
I’m not sure that’s true. CFAR (as one of the institutions of Bay Area rationalism) puts a lot of value on system I and system II being friends.
Even when we just look at rationality!Eliezer, Eliezer argued for the Multiple World Hypothesis in a way that runs counter to logical positivism.
I don’t think MWI is an exception to Eliezer’s other stated views about epistomology. He isn’t naive about epistomology and thinks that the fact that MWI is coherent in some sense is reason to believe in it even when there’s no experiment that could be run to prove it.
I’m not sure that’s true. CFAR (as one of the institutions of Bay Area rationalism) puts a lot of value on system I and system II being friends. Even when we just look at rationality!Eliezer, Eliezer argued for the Multiple World Hypothesis in a way that runs counter to logical positivism.
My take is that the LP is the official doctrine, and the MWI is an unwitting exception.
I don’t think MWI is an exception to Eliezer’s other stated views about epistomology. He isn’t naive about epistomology and thinks that the fact that MWI is coherent in some sense is reason to believe in it even when there’s no experiment that could be run to prove it.
He’s naive enough to reinvent LP. And since when was “coherent , therefore true” a precept of his epistemology?