LW is a known hotbed of compatibilism, so here’s my question:
That’s not been my impression. I would have summarized it more as “LW (a) agrees that LFW doesn’t exist and (b) understands that debating compatibilism doesn’t make sense because it’s just a matter of definition”
Personally, I certainly don’t consider myself a compatibilist (though this is really just a matter of preference since there are no factual disagreements). My brief answer to “does free will exist” is “no”. The longer answer is the within-physics stick figure drawing.
Perhaps what’s really going on to give me that impression is:
LW is confident that libertarian free will is incoherent or at least non-existent
so when people here talk (explicitly or implicitly) about exercising free will, they usually mean it in the compatibilist sense, and often treat that as the only possible sense
Which doesn’t actually imply that a high proportion would identify themselves as compatibilists. (I thought there would be survey results to clear this up, but all I could find with a quick search was a very old one with only hard-to-decode raw data accessible.)
That’s not been my impression. I would have summarized it more as “LW (a) agrees that LFW doesn’t exist and (b) understands that debating compatibilism doesn’t make sense because it’s just a matter of definition”
Personally, I certainly don’t consider myself a compatibilist (though this is really just a matter of preference since there are no factual disagreements). My brief answer to “does free will exist” is “no”. The longer answer is the within-physics stick figure drawing.
Perhaps what’s really going on to give me that impression is:
LW is confident that libertarian free will is incoherent or at least non-existent
so when people here talk (explicitly or implicitly) about exercising free will, they usually mean it in the compatibilist sense, and often treat that as the only possible sense
Which doesn’t actually imply that a high proportion would identify themselves as compatibilists. (I thought there would be survey results to clear this up, but all I could find with a quick search was a very old one with only hard-to-decode raw data accessible.)