Note I have never met Nate, but have taken some amount of value from his writings. I have met KurtB briefly around a year ago and enjoyed some excellent conversations at the time. I can’t remember if I’ve met TurnTrout but we’ve certainly interacted with medium success online. This comment is not meant to add any evidential weight to any part of anyone’s previous statements.
I am reminded by some of these comments and threads (especially the one with TurnTrout and KurtB) of the ‘super chicken’ model—researchers selecting chickens for high egg output inadvertently produced high levels of conspecific violence and aggression (it turned out to be easier to be best-in-cohort by putting down other locals than by actually laying more eggs). I think maybe Eliezer wrote about this somewhere.
One hypothesis might be that Nate is simultaneously good at laying eggs and also prone (not necessarily deliberately) to pecking conspecifics.
Note I have never met Nate, but have taken some amount of value from his writings. I have met KurtB briefly around a year ago and enjoyed some excellent conversations at the time. I can’t remember if I’ve met TurnTrout but we’ve certainly interacted with medium success online. This comment is not meant to add any evidential weight to any part of anyone’s previous statements.
I am reminded by some of these comments and threads (especially the one with TurnTrout and KurtB) of the ‘super chicken’ model—researchers selecting chickens for high egg output inadvertently produced high levels of conspecific violence and aggression (it turned out to be easier to be best-in-cohort by putting down other locals than by actually laying more eggs). I think maybe Eliezer wrote about this somewhere.
One hypothesis might be that Nate is simultaneously good at laying eggs and also prone (not necessarily deliberately) to pecking conspecifics.