Jokes aside, some of what EY preaches here IS WRONG, since there is absolutely no way he is right about everything. If someone tells you otherwise, they are treating EY as a cult leader, not a teacher.
This seems to be a straw-man. Has anyone ever asserted the infallibility of everything Eliezer has posted? Not even the Pope has that going (he only has an infallible hat he can put on), and it seems to be contradicted many times in the posts themselves with notes of edits made. Everything Eliezer has posted being right is substantially less probable than the least likely thing he has posted.
But everything Eliezer has posted doesn’t have to be right for there to be much of value, or to rely with some confidence in a particular assertion being right (particularly after you have read the arguments behind it) - and some of what is written here is fairly uncontroversial.
This seems to be a straw-man. Has anyone ever asserted the infallibility of everything Eliezer has posted? Not even the Pope has that going (he only has an infallible hat he can put on), and it seems to be contradicted many times in the posts themselves with notes of edits made. Everything Eliezer has posted being right is substantially less probable than the least likely thing he has posted.
But everything Eliezer has posted doesn’t have to be right for there to be much of value, or to rely with some confidence in a particular assertion being right (particularly after you have read the arguments behind it) - and some of what is written here is fairly uncontroversial.
A straw man is a component of an argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent’s position, twisting his words or by means of [false] assumptions.. Please point out where I have misrepresented Klao’s position. If anything, you are misrepresenting mine, as I never made any of the claims you refuted.