This is a post I, funnily, found both useful, and intend to, in other comments, intend to ‘tear to shreds’, so to speak. The first thing I would say is this article could be edited and formatted better. This is a relatively long post for LW, that nonetheless covers a great breadth of material rather briefly relative to the scope of the topics. I think having an introduction at the beginning that generally summarizes the different sections of your post at the beginning, it would be helpful for readers. You could also use formatting options for presenting formal logic or philosophy, and others, like subheadings, available on LW, that would make this article more readable on this site. I’d also say that you move through a lot of subjects very fast that it would be unrealistic to expect most readers to know enough about to put them altogether in the way you’re intending to understanding your conclusion. If you were to provide some links as resources to learn more about the subjects, or you were to expand on how the central theme(s) of this article relate to the different topics you bring up (e.g., theoretical physics, quantum computing, AI, Bayesian epistemology). I think editing this article to make it more readable is what would get more people to read it to the end, and thus understand the message you’re trying to impart.
This is a post I, funnily, found both useful, and intend to, in other comments, intend to ‘tear to shreds’, so to speak. The first thing I would say is this article could be edited and formatted better. This is a relatively long post for LW, that nonetheless covers a great breadth of material rather briefly relative to the scope of the topics. I think having an introduction at the beginning that generally summarizes the different sections of your post at the beginning, it would be helpful for readers. You could also use formatting options for presenting formal logic or philosophy, and others, like subheadings, available on LW, that would make this article more readable on this site. I’d also say that you move through a lot of subjects very fast that it would be unrealistic to expect most readers to know enough about to put them altogether in the way you’re intending to understanding your conclusion. If you were to provide some links as resources to learn more about the subjects, or you were to expand on how the central theme(s) of this article relate to the different topics you bring up (e.g., theoretical physics, quantum computing, AI, Bayesian epistemology). I think editing this article to make it more readable is what would get more people to read it to the end, and thus understand the message you’re trying to impart.