I mean, I also think there is continuity from the beliefs I held in my high-school essays and my present beliefs, but it’s also enough time and distance that if you straightforwardly attribute claims to me that I made in my high-school essays, that I have explicitly disavowed and told you I do not believe, that I will be very annoyed with you and will model you as not actually trying to understand what I believe.
Absolutely, if you have specifically disavowed any claims, that takes precedence over anything else. And if I insist you still think x, because you said x ten years ago, but you say you now think something else, I’m just being obstinant.
In contrast, if you said x ten years ago, and in the intervening time you’ve shared a bunch of highly detailed models that are consistent with x, I think I should think you still think x.
I’m not aware of any specific disavowals of anything after 2004? What are you thinking of here?
I mean, I also think there is continuity from the beliefs I held in my high-school essays and my present beliefs, but it’s also enough time and distance that if you straightforwardly attribute claims to me that I made in my high-school essays, that I have explicitly disavowed and told you I do not believe, that I will be very annoyed with you and will model you as not actually trying to understand what I believe.
Absolutely, if you have specifically disavowed any claims, that takes precedence over anything else. And if I insist you still think x, because you said x ten years ago, but you say you now think something else, I’m just being obstinant.
In contrast, if you said x ten years ago, and in the intervening time you’ve shared a bunch of highly detailed models that are consistent with x, I think I should think you still think x.
I’m not aware of any specific disavowals of anything after 2004? What are you thinking of here?