But Eliezer can’t do that, because he does think that basilisk-like ideas can be dangerous, and this belief of his is feeding his inability to really deny the Basilisk.
In other words, he disagrees with you and that is preventing him from agreeing with you.
Yes, except that agreeing with me is what a lot of people take Eliezer to be saying. There’s this widespread belief that Eliezer just denied the Basilisk. And that’s not really true; he denied the exact version of the Basilisk that was causing trouble, but he acceps the Basilisk in principle.
In other words, he disagrees with you and that is preventing him from agreeing with you.
Yes, except that agreeing with me is what a lot of people take Eliezer to be saying. There’s this widespread belief that Eliezer just denied the Basilisk. And that’s not really true; he denied the exact version of the Basilisk that was causing trouble, but he acceps the Basilisk in principle.