The author is going out of his way to not say whatever he is saying. He is writing in allusions that will only make sense to people closely connected to whatever he’s talking about. “242” → Bahamas → FTX is clear enough, but I don’t know what else I’m not getting and it’s not worth the effort to me to find out.
Was trying not to specifically mention FTX, Nick Bostrom or Max Tegmark. I wanted to keep the audience to people who were familiar with it and not people Googling the topics who were off-forum and not EA or rationalist types.
Huh… thought I would get disagreement, but not for that reason. Thanks for the feedback. I was trying not to use terms that would appear in searches like FTX, Nick Bostrom or Max Tegmark. I did link to relevant posts where I thought it would be unclear.
It feels like there is something interesting in this post, but I found it scattered and meandering to the point of unreadability, sadly.
I too tried to read this post and couldn’t figure out what its point was most of the time.
The author is going out of his way to not say whatever he is saying. He is writing in allusions that will only make sense to people closely connected to whatever he’s talking about. “242” → Bahamas → FTX is clear enough, but I don’t know what else I’m not getting and it’s not worth the effort to me to find out.
Presumably this is the intended effect.
Was trying not to specifically mention FTX, Nick Bostrom or Max Tegmark. I wanted to keep the audience to people who were familiar with it and not people Googling the topics who were off-forum and not EA or rationalist types.
I tried to make that clear in the introduction.
Huh… thought I would get disagreement, but not for that reason. Thanks for the feedback. I was trying not to use terms that would appear in searches like FTX, Nick Bostrom or Max Tegmark. I did link to relevant posts where I thought it would be unclear.