I’m watching this dialogue now, I’m 45 (of 73) minutes in. I’d just like to remark that:
Eliezer is so nice! Just so patient, and calm, and unmindful of others’ (ahem) attempts to rile him.
Robert Wright seemed more interested in sparking a fiery argument than in productive discussion. And I’m being polite here. Really, he was rather shrill.
Aside: what is the LW policy on commenting on old threads? All good? Frowned upon?
what is the LW policy on commenting on old threads? All good? Frowned upon?
It’s pretty much okay. If there is a recent “Sequence rerun” thread about in in Discussion, then the discussion should happen there instead, but otherwise there’s no particular issues.
I’m watching this dialogue now, I’m 45 (of 73) minutes in. I’d just like to remark that:
Eliezer is so nice! Just so patient, and calm, and unmindful of others’ (ahem) attempts to rile him.
Robert Wright seemed more interested in sparking a fiery argument than in productive discussion. And I’m being polite here. Really, he was rather shrill.
Aside: what is the LW policy on commenting on old threads? All good? Frowned upon?
It’s pretty much okay. If there is a recent “Sequence rerun” thread about in in Discussion, then the discussion should happen there instead, but otherwise there’s no particular issues.