According to my first quotation from Eliezer he seems to think, that HE is “creating rationalists”.
I just don’t see how another person can create a rationalist. This work you do yourself—with a little help from your friends.
Eliezers monologues on OB were fun. They were useful fragments and mirrors. Hints and metaphors. In a sense he coined the word “rationalist” as a useful suggestion for an identity.
I am still hanging around here ’cos I too think there is some utility in chosing to be “rational”.
But I do not accept Eliezer’s checklist as being exhaustive—annasalamons questionaire is an absurd example of its narrowness. And unfortunately also an example of Eliezer being right—he is creating “rationalists” after his own image.
So beware the creation of rationalists. And let’s have a little bit of independent thinking around here instead.
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According to my first quotation from Eliezer he seems to think, that HE is “creating rationalists”.
I just don’t see how another person can create a rationalist. This work you do yourself—with a little help from your friends.
Eliezers monologues on OB were fun. They were useful fragments and mirrors. Hints and metaphors. In a sense he coined the word “rationalist” as a useful suggestion for an identity.
I am still hanging around here ’cos I too think there is some utility in chosing to be “rational”.
But I do not accept Eliezer’s checklist as being exhaustive—annasalamons questionaire is an absurd example of its narrowness. And unfortunately also an example of Eliezer being right—he is creating “rationalists” after his own image.
So beware the creation of rationalists. And let’s have a little bit of independent thinking around here instead.
“I just don’t see how another person can create a rationalist. This work you do yourself—with a little help from your friends.”
You can lead a brain to data, but you can’t make it think. Thinking is a choice you make for yourself. No one else can do it for you.