Vervaeke & (Green)Hall: Bullshit & Simulated Thinking
Rebel Wisdom
00:00
The Metagame of Optimizing
There's something fundamental about the notion of optimization that I think is key to the key to the story, key to the model. This is like the difference between right being merely logical and then trying to be comprehensively rational in one's life. It's the, the live knit see an effort to simulate the latter by virtue of a limit as X limit as the former approaches the latter. And when you equivocate between actually pursuing their meta optimality, and just folding something into whatever automated system you're using that's the moment of bullshit. Is that what you're seeing? Right. You're identifying two things that are exactly not identical in the important way, in that one has the
Transcript
Play full episode
