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Why? That looks like an extremely arbitrary requirement to me. "Nothing can have the properties I have unless it got them in the exact same way I got ...

it's not necessarily that well suited to philosophy. It's more well suited to disciplines that have explicit agreed upon correct answers, and philosop...

I don't think this is a take that's likely correct. This super interesting writeup on an LLM learning to model and understand and play chess convinces...

inherent? No. It has value to me, and to every human, or almost every human. It's not the water that's valuable in itself, it's valuable in its relati...

I don't think this is true anyway. I don't think "inherent value" is even meaningful. Do things have inherent value? A pile of shit is valueless to me...

and why should anyone accept that that was overvalued in the pre-LLM world? Are all services that cost big numbers overvalued?

I don't think it follows that if an ai can do it, it's overvalued. I mean, maybe the value of it is decreasing NOW, now that ai can do it, but you're ...

With no explanation, sure, that's not very compelling though

says who?

Language is turing complete, so it's possible that every complete coherent idea can be expressed in language

in any case, the choice to leave a cult usually comes after a realisation that the teachings aren't true. I'm not sure that realization is usually a "...

I'm not sure what the "cult" thing is about. In any case, if you're not choosing your choice to change beliefs, then it's like that change just happen...

Right, but not a choice to make that choice. So... you made a choice to do some thing, but you didn't make a choice to choose to do that thing. The ch...

If it was a choice, was there a conscious choice to make that choice?

I agree that the things we call objective truths, we believe are objective truths for shared subjective reasons. I think that's distinct from the ques...

"Voluntarily choose" makes it sound arbitrary. Rather, some people aim to have their rational facilities set up so that they HAVE to accept genuinely ...

There's a pro and a con in it: in making oneself apparently invulerable to propaganda, it seems frequently the case that one also makes oneself unavai...

Case 1 doesn't interest me much, I think it boils down to a semantic argument, but case 2 does. I'm not sure where I stand on that.

one of the most bizarre aspects about the pascals wager family of arguments

Such thinking makes you vulnerable to erntirely fictional threats, basically spiritual terrorism. All someone has to do is invent a narrative where yo...

I understand the case to be exactly the opposite to this - we in fact can quite literally simulate chemistry using nothing but quantum mechanics. Chem...

For me, reductionism would only not be true if genuinely Strong Emergence was the case - if small things *stopped behaving like themselves* because th...

I personally think one of the big confusions in these conversations comes from the assumption that 'more is different' is not what reductionists think...

It looks to me like that's exactly what they do though.

Another thing we interpret in exactly opposite ways. I see that phrase as something entirely reductionistic. If you explain the smallest things in the...

That's already the case, even now - I agree with you that it would be EVEN MORE the case, but it's already the case now. How do we explain chemistry? ...

I'm not seeing the things you're seeing. A "grand unification" looks like a reduction to me. I don't see what in the physical sciences would make you ...

Do you feel this malicious towards people just because they have ideas you don't agree with? Or did he harm you personally in some way?

If this means what I think it means, it seems awfully mean spirited. Are you mocking someone for dieing? Because they believe natural evolution is a g...

Can you give any sources that would demonstrate that this is genuinely a real controversy among experts in the field? read some of this wikipedia page...

If something is happening randomly, it doesn't seem like it's in my control. I don't see how randomness adds control - in fact to the contrary, I thin...

Does indeterminism? It wouldn't seem so to me.

is that what you think I was doing? Do you think I said something incorrect?

I didn't say there are two types of people. I think you read too hastily perhaps.

there's probably a few different types of people who don't even bother thinking about it, and here's two such groups: 1. People having such a good tim...

your list is a good start. Not all ideas have to be beneficial to the holder, but they should usually not be explicitly super harmful or they will die...

They're viral, and just like viruses they can evolve to survive better.

almost certainly, yes. There's a reason why the question most associated with philosophy is "what's the meaning of life?" It's also the reason why so ...

I set the bar too high? But those are your words. "can only be understood by first understanding everything there is to know" -- that's from your OP. ...

So what's an example of an inductive belief that you wouldn't understand without first understanding everything there is to know?

I think we'd all benefit from an example of this. What is an example of an inductive belief which can only be understood by first understanding everyo...

If I may make a suggestion, I think you should move away from calling these things "a logic" and find a more universally shared vocabulary. That's all...

A logic is a statement referring to a logic. Okay, so... the definition seems self referential and circular now. If a logic is a statement referring t...

okay. "It will be day time if the Sun is to rise above Earth" looks like a statement to me. You're saying it's not a statement, it's "a logic". I don'...

I don't know what you're saying "no" to

when you say "logic" do you mean "statement"? Because "It will be day time if the Sun is to rise above Earth" looks just like a normal statement to me...

fair enough

don't you think naming schools after rich benefactors serves as a useful incentive to get them to donate? If their vanity is the only reason they dona...

Which of those attempts at formalization resonate with you most?

are you already aware of any attempts by other thinkers to formalize or semi formalize these ideas?