Thanks! This is a very useful explanation / reduction / taboo.
It also sheds some light and helped me understand quite a bit more, I believe, on this whole “instrumentalism” business some people here seem to really want to protect.
(link is just in case someone misunderstands this as an accusation of “Politics!”)
You’re welcome. I vaguely remember being involved in an earlier discussion that covered this idea at greater length, wherein I described myself as a compatibilist when it comes to instrumentalism, but the obvious google search doesn’t find it so perhaps I’m deluded.
Thanks! This is a very useful explanation / reduction / taboo.
It also sheds some light and helped me understand quite a bit more, I believe, on this whole “instrumentalism” business some people here seem to really want to protect.
(link is just in case someone misunderstands this as an accusation of “Politics!”)
You’re welcome. I vaguely remember being involved in an earlier discussion that covered this idea at greater length, wherein I described myself as a compatibilist when it comes to instrumentalism, but the obvious google search doesn’t find it so perhaps I’m deluded.
Was it from a couple days ago?
(I found this with Wei Dai’s lesswrong_user.php script.)
Ayup, that’s the one. Thanks!