Why must you ruin my self-conscious countersignalling with good epistemology?!
But seriously... Ack! Jennifer, you're brilliant. I dunno what they put in the water at that CCS place. Would you accept me as your apprentice? I hear tell you have a startup idea. I can't code, but I live very cheaply and can cheerfully do lots of menial tasks and errands of all kind, from in-the-field market research to buying donuts to washing dishes to answering customer questions and everything else. I'm versatile, energetic and a wicked good rationalist. And I feel that working for you even for a short while would significantly build my understanding of social epistemology and epistemology generally, helping me in my quest to Save the World. Doesn't that sound like a totally awesome idea? :D
Your compliments are appreciated but, I suspect, unwarranted :-P
I'm not saying "definitely no" and I think it would be cool to work with you. But also you should probably reconsider the offer because I think the right question (tragically?) is not so much "Can I work with you to somehow learn your wisdom by osmosis?" but "Where are the practice grounds for the insight just displayed?" My working theory of "intellectual efficacy" is that it mostly comes from practice.
Following this theory, if you're simply aiming fo...
Sweet, there's another Bloggingheads episode with Eliezer.
Bloggingheads: Robert Wright and Eliezer Yudkowsky: Science Saturday: Purposes and Futures