magfrump comments on Metaphilosophical Mysteries - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 27 July 2010 01:56:41AM *  15 points [-]

What is your definition of philosophy for this article?
Why is it a failing of a highly intelligent mind that it can't "do philosophy"?
Why would a Bayesian EU maximizer necessarily be unable to tell that a computable prior is wrong?
When is Bayesian updating the wrong thing to do?
What should I have learned from your link to Updateless Decision Theory that causes me to suspect that EU maximizing with Bayesian updating on a universal prior is wrong?
Doesn't rationality require identification of one's goals, therefore inheriting the full complexity of value of oneself?
What would count as an example of a metaphilosophical insight?

Comment author: magfrump 27 July 2010 06:35:09AM 1 point [-]

At least as I understand his point about rationality being objective, I assume he means that "given a set of goals and possible decisions, the most effective decision is determined."

I don't really understand why this doesn't apply to morality as such, unless they aren't similar in the way he implies.