Note on genre: This sequence is a demonstration of a complete naturalist study, as described in Intro to Naturalism and The Nuts and Bolts Of Naturalism. I think of naturalism demos as reference material. I’ve tried to make it readable, but like a dictionary or a user manual, I only expect it to be of interest to people who already have a reason to consult it.

Epistemic status: The explicit concepts I’m building around what I’ve learned are still under construction. I think the framing emphasized in this demo is askew, or incomplete, or some-other-how flawed. Perhaps I will come back in a future year to describe how my concepts have evolved. However, I stand pretty firmly behind the broad strokes of the process-level stuff.

Goals

“Hug the Query” is an essay by Eliezer Yudkowsky advocating a certain discipline of rationality that he calls closeness to the issue [...]

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Outline:

(00:51) Goals

(01:42) Motivation

(07:06) Structure

(08:52) Is this for you?

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.