Damn. Yvain nails it again. His model of the situation is spot-on, but I’m scratching my head about something:
He argues that signaling, etc cause the socially-dominant position to atrophy and drift to maximum absurdity, but then he simultaneously claims that the socially dominant position is reliably correct. Maybe it’s just my prior from having recently had my faith in the Cathedral shaken, but this seems like one more good argument why the socially dominant position is bullshit.
Curiosity is a wonderful feeling! I actually don’t know which way this will go, and it feels great. I’m getting a lot of practice at changing my mind and getting very epistemically self-skeptical. Fuck I love being a rationalist...
On to part two… (EDIT, your link has a stray trailing underscore that causes 404)
Damn. Yvain nails it again. His model of the situation is spot-on, but I’m scratching my head about something:
He argues that signaling, etc cause the socially-dominant position to atrophy and drift to maximum absurdity, but then he simultaneously claims that the socially dominant position is reliably correct. Maybe it’s just my prior from having recently had my faith in the Cathedral shaken, but this seems like one more good argument why the socially dominant position is bullshit.
Curiosity is a wonderful feeling! I actually don’t know which way this will go, and it feels great. I’m getting a lot of practice at changing my mind and getting very epistemically self-skeptical. Fuck I love being a rationalist...
On to part two… (EDIT, your link has a stray trailing underscore that causes 404)