I agree that there’s absolutely no way that Eliezer is right about everything. But everything in the Sequences is a (small) proper subset of everything Eliezer believes. So the notion that everything he has said here is correct isn’t as unreasonable.
There’s nothing wrong with this discussion as such, but it is of no practical relevance. Regardless of whether or not errors were written into the sequences, errors are read out of them. I’ve been surprised and frustrated by people’s stupidity, such as the mass misunderstanding of the Allais paradox or dust specks, but I probably am misinterpreting something that would be obvious to someone smarter. This might even be on an issue where I am right and only wrongly think I disagree with others.
There’s nothing wrong with this discussion as such, but it is of no practical relevance. Regardless of whether or not errors were written into the sequences, errors are read out of them. I’ve been surprised and frustrated by people’s stupidity, such as the mass misunderstanding of the Allais paradox or dust specks, but I probably am misinterpreting something that would be obvious to someone smarter. This might even be on an issue where I am right and only wrongly think I disagree with others.