He has another post about how if you say something outrageous that later becomes common wisdom, you won’t be widely admired for having said it first; you will still be thought of as a crank.
Cognitive bias is now much more popular and fashionable than it was when I first started talking to my friends about it after reading Eliezer’s posts. I predict that zero people will say “so it looks like this Eliezer guy you keep talking about was ahead of the curve on cognitive bias, maybe it’s worth hearing some of his other ideas?”
He has another post about how if you say something outrageous that later becomes common wisdom, you won’t be widely admired for having said it first; you will still be thought of as a crank.
Cognitive bias is now much more popular and fashionable than it was when I first started talking to my friends about it after reading Eliezer’s posts. I predict that zero people will say “so it looks like this Eliezer guy you keep talking about was ahead of the curve on cognitive bias, maybe it’s worth hearing some of his other ideas?”