I agree about philosophy and actually I feel similar about the LW style rationality, for my value of real work (engineering mostly, with some art and science). Your tricks burden the tree search, and also easily lead to wrong order of branch processing as the ‘biases’ for effective branch processing are either disabled or worst of all negated, before a substitute is devised.
If you want to form a belief about, for example, FAI, it’s all nice that you don’t feel that the morality can result from some simple principles. If you want to build FAI—this branch (the generated morality that we agree with) is much much lower while it’s probability of success, really, isn’t that much worse, as the long, hand wavy argument has many points of possible failure and low reliability. Then, there’s still no immunity against fallacies. The worst form of sunk cost fallacy is disregard for possibility of better solution after the cost has been sunk. That’s what destroys corporations after they sink costs. They don’t even pursue cost-recovery option when it doesn’t coincide with prior effort and only utilizes part of prior effort.
I agree about philosophy and actually I feel similar about the LW style rationality, for my value of real work (engineering mostly, with some art and science). Your tricks burden the tree search, and also easily lead to wrong order of branch processing as the ‘biases’ for effective branch processing are either disabled or worst of all negated, before a substitute is devised.
If you want to form a belief about, for example, FAI, it’s all nice that you don’t feel that the morality can result from some simple principles. If you want to build FAI—this branch (the generated morality that we agree with) is much much lower while it’s probability of success, really, isn’t that much worse, as the long, hand wavy argument has many points of possible failure and low reliability. Then, there’s still no immunity against fallacies. The worst form of sunk cost fallacy is disregard for possibility of better solution after the cost has been sunk. That’s what destroys corporations after they sink costs. They don’t even pursue cost-recovery option when it doesn’t coincide with prior effort and only utilizes part of prior effort.