e/acc has solved the "is-ought" problem with thermodynamics!
https:// twitter.com /BasedBeffJezos/status/1757229815537733880 e/acc has solved the "is-ought" problem with thermodynamics!
Brain genius Beff Jezos manages to butcher both philosophy and physics at the same time!
For people who don't want to go to twitter, heres the thread:
Doomers: "YoU cAnNoT dErIvE wHaT oUgHt fRoM iS" 😵💫
Reality: you literally can derive what ought to be (what is probable) from the out-of-equilibrium thermodynamical equations, and it simply depends on the free energy dissipated by the trajectory of the system over time.
While I am purposefully misconstruing the two definitions here, there is an argument to be made by this very principle that the post-selection effect on culture yields a convergence of the two
How do you define what is "ought"? Based on a system of values. How do you determine your values? Based on cultural priors. How do those cultural priors get distilled from experience? Through a memetic adaptive process where there is a selective pressure on the space of cultures.
Ultimately, the value systems that survive will be the ones that are aligned towards growth of its ideological hosts, i.e. according to memetic fitness.
Memetic fitness is a byproduct of thermodynamic dissipative adaptation, similar to genetic evolution.
19Solving the is-ought problem is super easy when you change what "ought" means.
23I dislike how often people pull this trick. 'here are 5 definitions of this thing, we are going to pick one, prove something for it, and claim it also holds for all the other definitions, and never tell people we are working with a non-standard thing'. I get that the goal is to make the non-standard definition the standard, it is activism masking as logic, but eurgh.
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Well those are certainly some words.
11Oh god what is most infuriating about this is that he's not necessarily wrong (moral realism👍), he's just getting to it in the most shitheaded way possible with what I have to assume to be the worst possible intentions.
9If you’re moral realist he’s even more wrong. Of the realist positions available this is closest to naturalism, but it denies the essential precepts of any moral realism viz. the mind-independence of moral truth. This “is-ought” “solution” is as old as Protagoras, “man is the measure of all things”, where “e/acc’s google-brained account of consciousness” stands in for “man”.
As a philosophical position they’re just doing relativism, and then as a historicised political project this is just late 19th century scientism(ific racism). And I emphasise that the premises (“evolutionary fitness”) reveal the sources reveal the political project.
Moral realists introduce an independent condition (mind-independence) which at least purports to save ethical principles from reducing to “might makes right”, this is just the latter window-dressed with talk of “post-selection” to implicitly let in some degree of ethical deliberation as constitutive of morality, making it incidentally also a cowardly way to propagandise racism.
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As a physicist with a background in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics before moving to quantum information theory, let me reassure you that I speak from training and decades of experience when I say, "No, you dork ass loser."
18He solved the is-ought problem? How did he do that?
what ought to be (what is probable)
Hey guys I also solved the is-ought problem, first we start with is (what we should do)...
15Too stupid to debunk without resorting to bullying.
13This guy's idea of thermodynamics is basically... he thinks that speed running universal heat death is... the highest calling of life?
Kinda the slowest and least exciting way to annihilate the universe, but it seems to exist mostly to justify irresponsible energy use.
13While I am purposefully misconstruing the two definitions here, there is an argument to be made by this very principle that the post-selection effect on culture yields a convergence of the two
What's cooler than doing a mid bit with awful delivery and immediately explaining it? Trying to spin it into a serious argument by vomiting nonsense jargon.
I don't want to hear a word of complaint about obscurantist poststructuralists from this guy or anyone who likes him.
11so if i'm reading this right, he's basically saying that bestest social values exist in societies that change least with time, or in other words he's saying that the only moral position is to be reactionary
i don't know if it counts as mask off because mask wasn't ever really there
9Being able to derive reaction as the One True Political Movement via immutable physical laws sounds like a wet dream for some people.
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BJ: "I don't know what the is-ought problem is, or why anyone cares. I am clearly qualified to declare it solved. First, let me google what the definition of 'is' is, and also what 'ought' is. Then I'll use some science words to hot glue the two things together, and BAM! Solved. Another win for e/acc."
9E/Acc where Might makes Right, is the not at all repulsive and most ontologically sound source for ethics! Not at all burting at the seems with perverted eugenics, it's not morally dubious if none of your enemies survive to criticise you!
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