I think if rationality need to regularly explore concepts that don’t fit into words in order to be successful, then rationality should just not stress out when it can’t put concepts into words.
(It seems that both epistemic and instrumental rationality need this, for different reasons).
My biggest pet peeve with post-rationality (esp. as described as relating to LessWrong) is that it doesn’t seem to be doing anything that Eliezer doesn’t at least point to once in the sequences and say “this seems like it’s going to be important”, even if Eliezer isn’t an expert on it so didn’t have much to say.
I get a lot of flak from rationalists when I try to do stuff in the weird word territory.
It’s clear to me that the delineation is both necessary and helpful for people who are still getting the hang of interpreting weird words and for people well versed to find each other and compare notes.
To mush all PR into R isn’t making anyone happy.
I see R folk complaining about PR.
I see reductionist R folk, trying to deny the existence of PR.
I see PR folk laughing at the problem because of some variation on, “it seems so obvious now”.
I see PR folk bitter and annoyed because to them there is clearly something different that is not easy to delineate.
I see all this and more. We aren’t winning any games of “I mapped it better” by mushing two categories together.
I think if rationality need to regularly explore concepts that don’t fit into words in order to be successful, then rationality should just not stress out when it can’t put concepts into words.
(It seems that both epistemic and instrumental rationality need this, for different reasons).
My biggest pet peeve with post-rationality (esp. as described as relating to LessWrong) is that it doesn’t seem to be doing anything that Eliezer doesn’t at least point to once in the sequences and say “this seems like it’s going to be important”, even if Eliezer isn’t an expert on it so didn’t have much to say.
I get a lot of flak from rationalists when I try to do stuff in the weird word territory.
It’s clear to me that the delineation is both necessary and helpful for people who are still getting the hang of interpreting weird words and for people well versed to find each other and compare notes.
To mush all PR into R isn’t making anyone happy.
I see R folk complaining about PR. I see reductionist R folk, trying to deny the existence of PR. I see PR folk laughing at the problem because of some variation on, “it seems so obvious now”. I see PR folk bitter and annoyed because to them there is clearly something different that is not easy to delineate.
I see all this and more. We aren’t winning any games of “I mapped it better” by mushing two categories together.