Sorry you found it so stressful! I’m not objecting to you deciding it’s not worth your time to engage, what I’m getting at is a perceived double standard in when this kind of criticism is applied. You say
I do not think that the thing I am observing from Pope/Belrose is typical of LW/AF/rationalist/MIRI/etc behaviors to anything like the same degree that they consistently do it
But this seems wrong to me. The best analogue of your post from Quintin’s perspective was his own post laying out disagreements with Eliezer. Eliezer’s response to this was to say it was too long for him to bother reading, which imo is far worse. AFAICT his response to you in your post is higher-effort than the responses from MIRI people to his arguments all put together. Plausibly we have different clusters in our head of who we’re comparing him too though—I agree a wider set of LW people are much more engaging, I’m specifically comparing to e.g Nate and Eliezer as that feels to me a fairer comparison
To go into the specific behaviours you mention
I basically don’t see him changing his mind about anything, agreeing a good point was made
I don’t think this makes sense—if from his perspective you didn’t make good points or change his mind then what was he supposed to do? If you still think you did and he’s not appreciating them then that’s fair but is more reifying the initial disagreement. I also don’t see this behaviour from Eliezer or Nate?
addressing my arguments or thoughts on their merits rather than correcting my interpretation of his arguments, asking me questions, suggesting cruxes and so on.
I again don’t see Eliezer doing any of this either in responses to critical posts?
Where he notes disagreement he says he’s baffled anyone could think such a thing and doesn’t seem curious why I might think it
Again seems to be a feature of many MIRI-cluster responses. Stating that certain things feel obvious from the inside and that you don’t get why it’s so hard for other people to grok them is a common refrain.
Sorry you found it so stressful! I’m not objecting to you deciding it’s not worth your time to engage, what I’m getting at is a perceived double standard in when this kind of criticism is applied. You say
But this seems wrong to me. The best analogue of your post from Quintin’s perspective was his own post laying out disagreements with Eliezer. Eliezer’s response to this was to say it was too long for him to bother reading, which imo is far worse. AFAICT his response to you in your post is higher-effort than the responses from MIRI people to his arguments all put together. Plausibly we have different clusters in our head of who we’re comparing him too though—I agree a wider set of LW people are much more engaging, I’m specifically comparing to e.g Nate and Eliezer as that feels to me a fairer comparison
To go into the specific behaviours you mention
I don’t think this makes sense—if from his perspective you didn’t make good points or change his mind then what was he supposed to do? If you still think you did and he’s not appreciating them then that’s fair but is more reifying the initial disagreement. I also don’t see this behaviour from Eliezer or Nate?
I again don’t see Eliezer doing any of this either in responses to critical posts?
Again seems to be a feature of many MIRI-cluster responses. Stating that certain things feel obvious from the inside and that you don’t get why it’s so hard for other people to grok them is a common refrain.