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Reflective Mind in Type 1?

18 2021-09-30 02:04

I just finished revising my notes on CFAR's Participant Handbook the book can be had here: https://rationality.org/files/CFAR_Handbook_2021-01.pdf There were a few sections I thought might be harmful, and I think the techniques on the whole are too accepting of implicit goals. I did however learn several useful techniques, and gained many pointers to further resources. I suspect these resources will help me to build a more sound model of the functioning of the Type 1 reasoning, and give me better opportunities to exploit it.

While this work is entirely concerned with instrumental rationality, it seems that the methods themselves are carefully constructed so as to hint at the same sort of underlying thinking dispositions as support evidential rationality. It's as if they give you certain results you can see directly so that you continue with their research program to address the way you solve problems more generally. It is noticeably missing the traditional quantitative techniques associated with this community (no mention of Bayes' Theorem!?), perhaps these more traditional techniques are expected to be had from The Sequences?

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