I would rather you didn't recommend that people study things that are wrong - not the best use of their time. I'm referring especially to the parts of psychology that consisted of people just making up whatever sounded good.
Your focus on ontology and meta-ontology is interesting, could you explain more how it's related to friendliness?
I'm referring especially to the parts of psychology that consisted of people just making up whatever sounded good.
I quite obviously don't think that they're wrong.
Your focus on ontology and meta-ontology is interesting, could you explain more how it's related to friendliness?
It seems that a large part of what makes Steve Rayhawk so awesome is that he can make insightful connections between disparate fields by way of reasoning about them in the terms of a larger and consistent framework. Same goes for e.g. Michael Vassar and Peter de Blanc. That said...
I just realized that my 'Interests' list on The Facebook made an okay ad hoc list of fields potentially related to Friendliness-like philosophy. They sorta kinda flow into each other by relatedness and are not particularly prioritized. This is my own incomplete list, though it was largely inspired by many conversations with Singularity Institute folk. Plus signs mean I'm moderately more certain that the existing field (or some rationalist re-interpretation of it) has useful insights.
Friendliness philosophy: