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Re:AI’s big rift is like a religious schism by ImaCake on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @05:47PM (#38619832)
That seems like a pretty accurate take on the rationalist movement though? My skepticism with it is that awareness is not enough to overcome bias.
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Re:AI’s big rift is like a religious schism by concordDance on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @03:30AM (#38624282)
Nah, that's not how you debias, you mostly doing by practicing calibration (give odds for things and then checking what proportion of the 90% probability things actually happened).

The reasoning improvements primarily cone from a greater awareness of words (ambiguous meaning, context sensitivity, considering things as if they were statements in set theory) and tools like word tabooing or outside view.

I doubt the author has had much contact with rationalists (who the hell says "rationslism"?!).

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