Is it, and that of EY? Are you telling him the same? Check this comment and tell me again that I am antagonistic.
If I come over as such, I’m sorry. I’m a bit stressed writing so many comments accusing me of trying to damage this movement or making false arguments when all I did was indeed trying to inquire about some problems I have, asking questions.
I think part of the reason this went over badly is that in the US, there is a well-known and widely hated talk show host named Glenn Beck whose favorite rhetorical trick is to disguise attacks as questions, saying things like “Is it really true that so-and-so eats babies?”, repeating it enough times that his audience comes to believe that person eats babies, and then defending his accusations by saying “I’m just asking questions”. So some of us, having been exposed to that in the past, see questions and rhetoric mixed a certain way, subconsciously pattern-match against that, and get angry.
If I come over as such, I’m sorry. I’m a bit stressed writing so many comments accusing me of trying to damage this movement or making false arguments when all I did was indeed trying to inquire about some problems I have, asking questions.
I did get the impression that some took your questions as purely rhetorical, soldiers fighting against the credibility of SIAI. I took you as someone hoping to be convinced but with a responsible level of wariness.
I did get the impression that some took your questions as purely rhetorical, soldiers fighting against the credibility of SIAI. I took you as someone hoping to be convinced but with a responsible level of wariness.
That was my impression, also. As a result, I found many elements of the responses to XiXiDu to be disappointing. While there were a few errors in his post (e.g. attributing Kurweil views to SIAI), in general it should have been taken as an opportunity to clarify and throw down some useful links, rather than treat XiXiDu (who is also an SIAI donor!) as a low-g interloper.
Is it, and that of EY? Are you telling him the same? Check this comment and tell me again that I am antagonistic.
If I come over as such, I’m sorry. I’m a bit stressed writing so many comments accusing me of trying to damage this movement or making false arguments when all I did was indeed trying to inquire about some problems I have, asking questions.
I think part of the reason this went over badly is that in the US, there is a well-known and widely hated talk show host named Glenn Beck whose favorite rhetorical trick is to disguise attacks as questions, saying things like “Is it really true that so-and-so eats babies?”, repeating it enough times that his audience comes to believe that person eats babies, and then defending his accusations by saying “I’m just asking questions”. So some of us, having been exposed to that in the past, see questions and rhetoric mixed a certain way, subconsciously pattern-match against that, and get angry.
I did get the impression that some took your questions as purely rhetorical, soldiers fighting against the credibility of SIAI. I took you as someone hoping to be convinced but with a responsible level of wariness.
That was my impression, also. As a result, I found many elements of the responses to XiXiDu to be disappointing. While there were a few errors in his post (e.g. attributing Kurweil views to SIAI), in general it should have been taken as an opportunity to clarify and throw down some useful links, rather than treat XiXiDu (who is also an SIAI donor!) as a low-g interloper.