Warty

I consider myself to subscribe to "LessWrongist" philosophy: Bayesian epistemology, words are clusters in thingspace, materialist/reductionist view of consciousness and metaethics. These views seem to me to solve the typical philosophical nonsense you can often hear. But there is one topic on which I don't know what to think without...

There is a pattern that it seems to me rationalist-type people are prone to: 1. Internalize a belief X widely endorsed by society, which has many implications for actions. 2. Notice that people don't actually do the actions that are implied by X. 3. Do actions implied by X really...