SoullessAutomaton comments on Outside Analysis and Blind Spots - Less Wrong

68 Post author: orthonormal 21 July 2009 01:00AM

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Comment author: Cyan 21 July 2009 02:44:04AM *  9 points [-]

Possibly pedantic nitpick...

I thought "Inside View" and "Outside View" referred to predictions derived from a thorough, assumption-laden* mechanism-based model for something, and predictions derived from embedding the thing in a class of roughly similar things, respectively. You seem to be using the phrases to distinguish between in-group and out-group criticism.

* This isn't pejorative; the assumptions may be well-supported.

Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 21 July 2009 11:08:18AM 1 point [-]

This made me stumble as well. Unnecessary overloading of terminology confuses readers and reduced my enjoyment of an otherwise excellent post.