If it's something that outsiders do in fact see as impressive, then it's "outside" regardless of how much Bayesian content is in the job.
So I would respect Laplace as a rationality instructor well above Newton, by the min() function given above.
I'd rather hear what Laplace had to say about rationality-Laplace wasn't as famous as Newton, but Laplace was a great mathematician, physicist, and astronomer in his own right, and he was the one who said "I have no need of that hypothesis" (when Napoleon asked why Laplace's works on celestial mechanics did not mention God). Explicit, abstract, cross-domain understanding of rationality and the ability to teach it to others is, unfortunately, an additional discipline on top of domain-specific life success. This doesn't mean you can find random awesome people and expect them to be able to teach you. This doesn't set Rationality_Respect 1 equal to Non_Rationality_Respect 0.That is, you can't respect someone as a rationality instructor, more than you would respect them if they were not rationality instructors. Rationality_Respect 1(Instructor) = min(Rationality_Respect 0(Instructor), Non_Rationality_Respect 0(Instructor)) They must have a life outside the Bayesian Conspiracy, which would be worthy of respect even if they were not rationality instructors. You do that on Sundays, or full-time after you retire.Īnd to place a go stone blocking this failure mode, I propose a requirement that all rationality instructors must have secret identities. Similarly, I propose, no student of rationality should study with the purpose of becoming a rationality instructor in turn. When the student asks, "How? Does it have anything to do with grapes?" the critic replies disdainfully, "That's for grape-growers! I teach wine.") (Orson Scott Card uses the analogy of a wine critic who listens to a wine-taster saying "This wine has a great bouquet", and goes off to tell their students "You've got to make sure your wine has a great bouquet". Writers tend to look down on literary critics' understanding of the art form itself, for just this reason. To see what's wrong with this, imagine going to a class on literary criticism, falling in love with it, and dreaming of someday becoming a famous literary critic just like your professor, but never actually writing anything.
becoming a teacher and having their own martial arts dojo someday. I expected much of them, and they came to expect much of themselves." - JeffreyssaiĪmong the failure modes of martial arts dojos, I suspect, is that a sufficiently dedicated martial arts student, will dream of. "But there is a reason why many of my students have achieved great things and by that I do not mean high rank in the Bayesian Conspiracy. Previously in series: Whining-Based Communities
0 kommentar(er)
