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TheAncientGeek

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    Comment #44336910

    But rationalism , if the modern sort, isn't supposed to be descriptive, it's supposed to be normative -- rationality lets you win.

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    Comment #44336898

    Liberal and orthodox.

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    Comment #44336833

    It can't be that different, either, or our senses would be of no practical use.

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    Comment #44328919

    For naturalistic libertarians , free.will is.partly constituted by indtermimksm, not something entirely different.

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    Comment #44328791

    Also, mandatory scriptures and group hiouses.

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    Comment #44328698

    Analytical philosophy is rationalism done right.

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    Comment #44328674

    There isn't a single philosophical meaning. You are probably thinking of libertarian free will..furthering Obviously false because determinism isn't obviously true.

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    Comment #44328658

    >actually, this is obviously correct Nobody know what's actually correct, because you have to solve epistemology first, and you have to solve epistemology to solve epistemology...e…

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    Comment #44328428

    It's not just Moshowitz a lot of them have the same syndome.

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    Comment #44328284

    . Popperians claim that positive justification is impossible. Popperians claim.Induction doesn't exist (or at least , matter in science) Popper was prepared to consider the existen…

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    Comment #44328204

    Several different definitions are being bandied about. If you think of reduction as understanding a material system in terms of its components, biology is now reductionist, having …

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    Comment #44328128

    That's a practical limitation. There's no barrier in principle to a complete reduction.

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    Comment #44328094

    Well, you can get it from LessWrong and , even mire, Yudkowsky. Rationalism has overall and orthodox wings

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    Comment #44327820

    There's a lot of weird ideas on the fringes of EA...but they are on the fringes. Everyone is eye rolling at shrimp guy. https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/5JB4dn7hEvZCYDvCe/a-very-…

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    Comment #44327679

    Bullet biting.

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    Comment #44327488

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/dTkWWhQkgxePxbtPE/no-logi...

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    Comment #44327447

    There is no local realism. That doesn't at all add up to all-in-the-head idealism.

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    Comment #44327390

    Randomness based free will still gives you a non-inevitable future.