Thanks for your post. This is exactly the resolution I’ve been advocating for years. Can you provide links to some of those papers that consider this position and reject it? I’ve never seen a convincing argument against this.
The first is not actually a paper, and to be fair I think Hajek ends up being pretty sympathetic to the view that in practice, maybe we do just have to be dogmatic. But my impression was it was a sort of reluctant thing, and I came away with the impression that dogmatism is supposed to have major problems.
In the second, I believe dogmatism is treated quite dismissively, although it’s been a while since I’ve read it and I may have misunderstood it even then!
So I may be summarising these resources incorrectly, but iirc they are both really good, and would recommend checking them out if you haven’t already!
Thanks for your post. This is exactly the resolution I’ve been advocating for years. Can you provide links to some of those papers that consider this position and reject it? I’ve never seen a convincing argument against this.
The two specific examples that come to mind where I’ve seen dogmatism discussed and rejected (or at least not enthusiastically endorsed) are these:
https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/alan-hajek-probability-expected-value/ 80,000 hours podcast with Alan Hajek.
https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/40469/PDF/1/play/ Nick Beckstead’s thesis on longtermism
The first is not actually a paper, and to be fair I think Hajek ends up being pretty sympathetic to the view that in practice, maybe we do just have to be dogmatic. But my impression was it was a sort of reluctant thing, and I came away with the impression that dogmatism is supposed to have major problems.
In the second, I believe dogmatism is treated quite dismissively, although it’s been a while since I’ve read it and I may have misunderstood it even then!
So I may be summarising these resources incorrectly, but iirc they are both really good, and would recommend checking them out if you haven’t already!