As I said in my earlier comment, even if you want the sort of thing Eliezer says he wants, that’s entirely insufficient reason to make the choice he made. One would also have to not want all of the many advantages of choosing otherwise (i.e., posting on not-Facebook).
Let me emphasize again: for Eliezer’s choice to make sense, it is not enough to want the things he said. Neither does it suffice to want them more strongly than you want the other stuff I talked about, because it is not a tradeoff—at least, not in the sense that we have to trade off desirable features or advantages of one system against those of another system. The only costs are the up-front cognitive costs of considering the alternatives.
In order for Eliezer’s choice to make sense, one of the following seems to need to be true:
He has to not care at all about any of the advantages of not using Facebook as a primary host for one’s content.
He has to not have given any thought to the matter.
I do not have sufficient information to discriminate between these two possibilities. But I will say that #1 reflects much, much more poorly on Eliezer’s character than #2 does—which is why I assumed the latter to be the true answer.
Eliezer has mentioned his reasons for moving to Facebook.
Having read said comment [working link], I stand behind my “thoughtlessly” hypothesis, which seems to have been entirely on-target.
Um, huh? That comments looks to me like the “Eliezer wants a very different thing than Said wants” hypothesis.
As I said in my earlier comment, even if you want the sort of thing Eliezer says he wants, that’s entirely insufficient reason to make the choice he made. One would also have to not want all of the many advantages of choosing otherwise (i.e., posting on not-Facebook).
Let me emphasize again: for Eliezer’s choice to make sense, it is not enough to want the things he said. Neither does it suffice to want them more strongly than you want the other stuff I talked about, because it is not a tradeoff—at least, not in the sense that we have to trade off desirable features or advantages of one system against those of another system. The only costs are the up-front cognitive costs of considering the alternatives.
In order for Eliezer’s choice to make sense, one of the following seems to need to be true:
He has to not care at all about any of the advantages of not using Facebook as a primary host for one’s content.
He has to not have given any thought to the matter.
I do not have sufficient information to discriminate between these two possibilities. But I will say that #1 reflects much, much more poorly on Eliezer’s character than #2 does—which is why I assumed the latter to be the true answer.