I’ll concede all of the above, with the qualifier that you’re not nearly as sophisticated as you’d like to pretend.
What I’d like to focus on, instead, are the things you’ve chosen not to talk about. You, once again, have selectively quoted my comments and ignored any points that made you look bad but that you didn’t know how to answer. You’ve conceded that your understanding of my intentions is obviously irrational, that you’ve utilized strawmen often throughout this discussion, and that you’re using guerilla type argumentative tactics against me.
Overall, I don’t believe that this conflict is about the merits and risks of a reliance on tone at all, but rather it’s about you wanting to make a status grab at the expense of actually furthering rational communication on this site. It is also about your desire to ruin my status, which I believe exists not for the reasons given in these comment trees but rather for reasons that I don’t quite understand yet.
If I had to guess, you’re just a bully who enjoys bullying whenever they get into a context they can get away with it. You feel powerful when you portray yourself as engaging in the tactics of Machiavelli, or when you remind yourself that you have friends on this website and I don’t. You seem seriously messed up. Because of all this, I think you are a danger to LessWrong, and that your ego will increase existential risk by a significant amount.
I hope someone situated in a position to better analyze and respond to your behavior sees my comments, so that they can watch you with this perspective in mind. Take it with a grain of salt, please, but don’t dismiss it out of hand either. Hopefully, his influence will be curbed before he does something dangerous with it.
You seem seriously messed up. Because of all this, I think you are a danger to LessWrong, and that your ego will increase existential risk by a significant amount.
Oh, that’s just patently ridiculous. Nobody here (with very few exceptions) has any significant effect on existential risk.
I think that even very small amounts of x-risk increases are significant. I also think that lone LWers have the most impact when they’re dealing with things like community attitudes.
You’ve conceded that your understanding of my intentions is obviously irrational, that you’ve utilized strawmen often throughout this discussion, and that you’re using guerilla type argumentative tactics against me.
Still lies. I have directly said the opposite of that. Please leave lesswrong and go elsewhere.
and that your ego will increase existential risk by a significant amount.
If nothing else I suppose I am flattered that you believe I’m that relevant, that I have that much power to influence existential outcomes one way or the other. It seems appropriate to harness this kind of absurd lament as if it is a positive exhortation. A challenge consider what difference I could have, to evaluate what Good (whatever that means) my allegedly significant power could be harnessed towards.
If I had to guess, you’re just a bully who enjoys bullying whenever they get into a context they can get away with it. You feel powerful when you portray yourself as engaging in the tactics of Machiavelli, or when you remind yourself that you have friends on this website and I don’t.
I know you intend nothing more than slander but I am once more prompted to consider just what this information would mean to me were it true. If I was a bully, someone who thrives on abusing power against others and who presumably has been practiced the skills of the bully throughout my life then that would imply a certain skill-set that is valuable in certain contexts. It is a crude, distasteful skillset that I happen to find viscerally abhorrent down to the very core of my being but one that I must nevertheless acknowledge use instrumentally useful to those who use it well. Experience using Machiavellian tactics is even more useful, being far more general and adaptable than competency with petty bullying.
If I were so fundamentally instinctively orientated towards bullying and Machiavellian scheming toward power—and I credit myself with the intellect and resourcefulness to become quite proficient in whatever I’m instinctively driven to do if given three decades of experience—then that would give a very clear indication of just what my comparative advantage would be likely to be. Namely it would mean I should be making use of my natural drives being just one more asshole in a high paying and cutthroat workplace and industry (such as the pharmaceutical industry or something finance related). I would then be able to harness the economic bounty of my exploitation to achieve things I care about.
(As it happens your model of me is wrong so my development history and so comparative advantage is very different to what would be the case in the counterfactual world that operates using your assumption as a premise.)
You have repeatedly falsely portrayed my arguments as defending belligerent tone, you’ve used that as an excuse to curse at me, you’ve defended an absurd model of my intentions, you’ve shifted the topic of the discussion over and over again and repeatedly ignored points that you find inconvenient. You have never produced a valid response to these objections, you continue to omit them over and over and to instead redirect the topic onto personal attacks on me.
This is all evidence for my belief that you’re portraying your motives here dishonestly. The repeated aggression that you’ve shown, given the additional fact that there’s a complete lack of warrants to support it, is strong evidence for my belief that you enjoy being a jerk. You claim that you would have gone into a different line of work if that were the case, but I think that’s only incredibly weak evidence.
It’s not as though I should have a low prior on a human being an asshole, even if they’re not in finance. It’s also not as though I should privilege your assertions as to what a counterfactual world would look like over your actual observable behavior within these comments.
I’ll concede all of the above, with the qualifier that you’re not nearly as sophisticated as you’d like to pretend.
What I’d like to focus on, instead, are the things you’ve chosen not to talk about. You, once again, have selectively quoted my comments and ignored any points that made you look bad but that you didn’t know how to answer. You’ve conceded that your understanding of my intentions is obviously irrational, that you’ve utilized strawmen often throughout this discussion, and that you’re using guerilla type argumentative tactics against me.
Overall, I don’t believe that this conflict is about the merits and risks of a reliance on tone at all, but rather it’s about you wanting to make a status grab at the expense of actually furthering rational communication on this site. It is also about your desire to ruin my status, which I believe exists not for the reasons given in these comment trees but rather for reasons that I don’t quite understand yet.
If I had to guess, you’re just a bully who enjoys bullying whenever they get into a context they can get away with it. You feel powerful when you portray yourself as engaging in the tactics of Machiavelli, or when you remind yourself that you have friends on this website and I don’t. You seem seriously messed up. Because of all this, I think you are a danger to LessWrong, and that your ego will increase existential risk by a significant amount.
I hope someone situated in a position to better analyze and respond to your behavior sees my comments, so that they can watch you with this perspective in mind. Take it with a grain of salt, please, but don’t dismiss it out of hand either. Hopefully, his influence will be curbed before he does something dangerous with it.
Oh, that’s just patently ridiculous. Nobody here (with very few exceptions) has any significant effect on existential risk.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/fr2/lesswrong_podcasts/83ky
Reasserting that you hold an opinion is not evidence for the truth of that opinion.
Seriously? You believe that a lone LW regular can significantly affect x-risk?
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can destroy the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
I think that even very small amounts of x-risk increases are significant. I also think that lone LWers have the most impact when they’re dealing with things like community attitudes.
Still lies. I have directly said the opposite of that. Please leave lesswrong and go elsewhere.
If nothing else I suppose I am flattered that you believe I’m that relevant, that I have that much power to influence existential outcomes one way or the other. It seems appropriate to harness this kind of absurd lament as if it is a positive exhortation. A challenge consider what difference I could have, to evaluate what Good (whatever that means) my allegedly significant power could be harnessed towards.
I know you intend nothing more than slander but I am once more prompted to consider just what this information would mean to me were it true. If I was a bully, someone who thrives on abusing power against others and who presumably has been practiced the skills of the bully throughout my life then that would imply a certain skill-set that is valuable in certain contexts. It is a crude, distasteful skillset that I happen to find viscerally abhorrent down to the very core of my being but one that I must nevertheless acknowledge use instrumentally useful to those who use it well. Experience using Machiavellian tactics is even more useful, being far more general and adaptable than competency with petty bullying.
If I were so fundamentally instinctively orientated towards bullying and Machiavellian scheming toward power—and I credit myself with the intellect and resourcefulness to become quite proficient in whatever I’m instinctively driven to do if given three decades of experience—then that would give a very clear indication of just what my comparative advantage would be likely to be. Namely it would mean I should be making use of my natural drives being just one more asshole in a high paying and cutthroat workplace and industry (such as the pharmaceutical industry or something finance related). I would then be able to harness the economic bounty of my exploitation to achieve things I care about.
(As it happens your model of me is wrong so my development history and so comparative advantage is very different to what would be the case in the counterfactual world that operates using your assumption as a premise.)
You have repeatedly falsely portrayed my arguments as defending belligerent tone, you’ve used that as an excuse to curse at me, you’ve defended an absurd model of my intentions, you’ve shifted the topic of the discussion over and over again and repeatedly ignored points that you find inconvenient. You have never produced a valid response to these objections, you continue to omit them over and over and to instead redirect the topic onto personal attacks on me.
This is all evidence for my belief that you’re portraying your motives here dishonestly. The repeated aggression that you’ve shown, given the additional fact that there’s a complete lack of warrants to support it, is strong evidence for my belief that you enjoy being a jerk. You claim that you would have gone into a different line of work if that were the case, but I think that’s only incredibly weak evidence.
It’s not as though I should have a low prior on a human being an asshole, even if they’re not in finance. It’s also not as though I should privilege your assertions as to what a counterfactual world would look like over your actual observable behavior within these comments.