Jake Metzger
@jake-metzger.bsky.social
Interests: AI, ML, Stats, Epistemology, Causal Inference, Decision Theory, Phil of Sci
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My posts are my own and don't reflect the dispositions of any other person
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Richard @rmcelreath.bsky.social wrote a brilliant paper looking at this in quite specific detail journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Replication, Communication, and the Population Dynamics of Scientific Discovery
Many published research results are false (Ioannidis, 2005), and controversy continues over the roles of replication and publication policy in improving the reliability of research. Addressing these p...
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June 24, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Richard @rmcelreath.bsky.social wrote a brilliant paper looking at this in quite specific detail journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
They might apply to just about everything (except perhaps the more barebones axiomatic definitions, a la Kolmogorov). As someone who is generally sympathetic to the OQA (both analytic and synthetic) in metaethics, I'm initially inclined to be sympathetic here as well, though it is rightfully weak.
April 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
They might apply to just about everything (except perhaps the more barebones axiomatic definitions, a la Kolmogorov). As someone who is generally sympathetic to the OQA (both analytic and synthetic) in metaethics, I'm initially inclined to be sympathetic here as well, though it is rightfully weak.
I mostly think of myself as a pluralist, but other times I find Jaynes' view appealing as a holistic view. I'm also interested in whether a synthetic OQA (a la Horgan and Timmons) may also apply to these definitions, as the knee-jerk will be to object to the analytic reduction anyway.
April 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I mostly think of myself as a pluralist, but other times I find Jaynes' view appealing as a holistic view. I'm also interested in whether a synthetic OQA (a la Horgan and Timmons) may also apply to these definitions, as the knee-jerk will be to object to the analytic reduction anyway.