I haven’t followed the ins and the outs of this pointless drama, but I had assumed those were things Eliezer actually said. I’m pretty miffed to learn that those weren’t actually quotes, but rather something you had “inferred from revealed self-evident wisdom”.
That kind of stuff makes it tempting to pretty much ignore anything you write.
..assumed those were things Eliezer actually said.
Don’t be fooled by the other commenter’s, go and listen to the related videos I linked to. It would however be reasonable to paraphrase Yudkowsky in that way even if he never came close to saying that as it is reasonable to infer from his other writings that working on FAI and donating to organisations working on FAI (the SIAI being the only one I’m told) is the most important thing you could possible do. If not, why are people here actually doing just that?
I listened to the video. He said that while reading aloud a question someone was asking him.
I’m not objecting to the reformulation in your now modified post. I’m just pissed that you made me believe that it was an actual Eliezer Yudkowsky quote.
He said that while reading aloud a question someone was asking him.
Look, I didn’t know that everything within these “” symbols is taken to be the verbatim quotation of someone. I use them all the time to highlight or mark whatever I see fit. And the answers I wrote to the questions he has been asked resemble the gist of what he said. I simply didn’t expect anyone to believe that I transcribed two +4 minute videos which I linked to right after. I also never made anyone believe anything controversial. It is something that I think is widely accepted within this community anyway and it is what he said in the videos, although more long-winded.
Look, I didn’t know that everything within these “” symbols is taken to be the verbatim quotation of someone. I use them all the time to highlight or mark whatever I see fit.
But on a more “serious” note, when the implication is that you’re “quoting” someone, and you’re “using” quotation marks, “readers” will generally interpret the marks as quoting rather than “highlighting.”
Look, I’m quite often an idiot. I was looking for excuses while being psychologically overwhelmed today. If people here perceived that I did something wrong there, I probably did. I was just being lazy and imprudent so I wrote what I thought was the answer given by EY to the question posed in that part of a Q&A video series. There was no fraudulent intent on my part.
So please accept my apologies for possible misguidance and impoliteness. I’m just going to delete the comment now. (ETA: I’ll just leave the links to the videos.)
I’m trying for some time now to not getting involved on here anymore and to get back to being a passive reader. But replies make me feel constrained to answer once more.
If there is something else, let me know and I’ll just delete it.
I haven’t followed the ins and the outs of this pointless drama, but I had assumed those were things Eliezer actually said. I’m pretty miffed to learn that those weren’t actually quotes, but rather something you had “inferred from revealed self-evident wisdom”.
That kind of stuff makes it tempting to pretty much ignore anything you write.
Don’t be fooled by the other commenter’s, go and listen to the related videos I linked to. It would however be reasonable to paraphrase Yudkowsky in that way even if he never came close to saying that as it is reasonable to infer from his other writings that working on FAI and donating to organisations working on FAI (the SIAI being the only one I’m told) is the most important thing you could possible do. If not, why are people here actually doing just that?
I listened to the video. He said that while reading aloud a question someone was asking him.
I’m not objecting to the reformulation in your now modified post. I’m just pissed that you made me believe that it was an actual Eliezer Yudkowsky quote.
Look, I didn’t know that everything within these “” symbols is taken to be the verbatim quotation of someone. I use them all the time to highlight or mark whatever I see fit. And the answers I wrote to the questions he has been asked resemble the gist of what he said. I simply didn’t expect anyone to believe that I transcribed two +4 minute videos which I linked to right after. I also never made anyone believe anything controversial. It is something that I think is widely accepted within this community anyway and it is what he said in the videos, although more long-winded.
The “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks
But on a more “serious” note, when the implication is that you’re “quoting” someone, and you’re “using” quotation marks, “readers” will generally interpret the marks as quoting rather than “highlighting.”
Look, I’m quite often an idiot. I was looking for excuses while being psychologically overwhelmed today. If people here perceived that I did something wrong there, I probably did. I was just being lazy and imprudent so I wrote what I thought was the answer given by EY to the question posed in that part of a Q&A video series. There was no fraudulent intent on my part.
So please accept my apologies for possible misguidance and impoliteness. I’m just going to delete the comment now. (ETA: I’ll just leave the links to the videos.)
I’m trying for some time now to not getting involved on here anymore and to get back to being a passive reader. But replies make me feel constrained to answer once more.
If there is something else, let me know and I’ll just delete it.
Upvoted for admission of error.