Curated. (In particular recommending people click through and read the full Scott Alexander post)
I’ve been tracking the Rootclaim debate from the sidelines and finding it quite an interesting example of high-profile rationality.
I have a friend who’s been following the debate quite closely and finding that each debater, while flawed, had interesting points that were worth careful thought. My impression is a few people I know shifted from basically assuming Covid was probably a lab-leak, to being much less certain.
In general, I quite like people explicitly making public bets, and following them up with in-depth debate.
[Mod note: I edited out some of the meta commentary from the beginning for this curation. In-general for link posts I have a relatively low bar for editing things unilaterally, though I of course would never want to misportray what an author said]
Curated. (In particular recommending people click through and read the full Scott Alexander post)
I’ve been tracking the Rootclaim debate from the sidelines and finding it quite an interesting example of high-profile rationality.
I have a friend who’s been following the debate quite closely and finding that each debater, while flawed, had interesting points that were worth careful thought. My impression is a few people I know shifted from basically assuming Covid was probably a lab-leak, to being much less certain.
In general, I quite like people explicitly making public bets, and following them up with in-depth debate.
[Mod note: I edited out some of the meta commentary from the beginning for this curation. In-general for link posts I have a relatively low bar for editing things unilaterally, though I of course would never want to misportray what an author said]
Would you prefer the term “high-performance rationality” over “high-profile rationality”?