The animus here must be really strong. What Yudkowsky did was infer that Loosemore was lying about being a cognitive scientist from his ignorance of a variant of the Wasson experiment. First, people often forget obvious things in heated online discussions. Second, there are plenty of incompetent cognitive scientists: if Loosemore intended to deceive, he probably wouldn’t have expressly stated that he didn’t have teaching responsibilities for graduate students.
If what you say is true, then Eliezer is lying about Loosemore lying about his credentials, in which case Eliezer is “trolling”. But if what you say is false, then you are the “troll”.
(This comment is an attempt to convincingly demonstrate that Eliezer’s notion of trolling is, to put it bluntly, both harmful and dumb.)
If what you say is true, then Eliezer is lying about Loosemore lying about his credentials, in which case Eliezer is “trolling”. But if what you say is false, then you are the “troll”. (This comment is an attempt to convincingly demonstrate that Eliezer’s notion of trolling is, to put it bluntly, both harmful and dumb.)
I don’t know about you, but I’d prefer to be considered a troll than a liar; correspondingly, I think the expanded definition of liar is worse than the inaccurate definition of troll. Not every inaccuracy amounts to dishonesty and not all dishonesty to prevarication.
The animus here must be really strong. What Yudkowsky did was infer that Loosemore was lying about being a cognitive scientist from his ignorance of a variant of the Wasson experiment. First, people often forget obvious things in heated online discussions. Second, there are plenty of incompetent cognitive scientists: if Loosemore intended to deceive, he probably wouldn’t have expressly stated that he didn’t have teaching responsibilities for graduate students.
If what you say is true, then Eliezer is lying about Loosemore lying about his credentials, in which case Eliezer is “trolling”. But if what you say is false, then you are the “troll”.
(This comment is an attempt to convincingly demonstrate that Eliezer’s notion of trolling is, to put it bluntly, both harmful and dumb.)
I don’t know about you, but I’d prefer to be considered a troll than a liar; correspondingly, I think the expanded definition of liar is worse than the inaccurate definition of troll. Not every inaccuracy amounts to dishonesty and not all dishonesty to prevarication.