Bastian Sommerfeld
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I do understand that his Free Will posts may come off confused. I'd even go so far and say they are! Purposefully so. Let me explain why by rephrasing as per your request:
If I imagine reasoning like a staircase, where each step is one step I have to overcome. I think about a problem and reach a conclusion, which seems to be satisfying. Then I realize, no it isn't. I have to take another step towards full understanding of the problem, I have to reason further, there is more to find.
When someone gives me the top of those stairs, I'll be incredulous as to how anyone might've gotten there: Priests in Temples... (read more)
Try steelmanning Benquo's idea and not picking apart his bad example of it. That we have now established well.
What sort of explanation could his description encompass? I had to think of Eliezer's Free Will posts. Which built knowledge from the ground up starting at the roots, going through all the interferential steps up to his final solution to the question.
The Style of explanation used by him empowers me: I can read it jump out when I realize that my reasoing hasn't come to the end result yet, think for myself and try to get it myself. Furthermore it gives me the tools and hooks to disassemble his whole reasoning. If I, in... (read more)
I'd like to understand why you think the explanation of yeast is inadequate and why, in your opinion, the adequacy of the explanaiton of yeast is of importance to the topic of the article, namely the exploration and typification of a certain style of explaining things.
I agree time travel is nothing which applies to #1,#2 or #3. However Im curious:
Are time travel stories not taking points #1 and #2 in order to create a szenario to explore #3? Meaning I create a situation and in order to make it explorable and detatch it from people's expectations I use the literary device of time travel.