You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

Mitchell_Porter comments on Friendly AI and the limits of computational epistemology - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: Mitchell_Porter 08 August 2012 01:16PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (146)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 24 August 2012 06:32:22PM -1 points [-]

some single procedure that can be used to solve all philosophical problems

This is why I keep mentioning transcendental phenomenology. It is for philosophy what string theory is for physics, a strong candidate for the final answer. It's epistemologically deeper than natural science or mathematics, which it treats as specialized forms of rational subjective activity. But it's a difficult subject, which is why I mention it more often than I explain it. To truly teach it, I'd first need to understand, reproduce, and verify all its claims and procedures for myself, which I have not done. But I've seen enough to be impressed. Regardless of whether it is the final answer philosophically, I guarantee that mastering its concepts and terminology is a goal that would take a person philosophically deeper than anything else I could recommend.