This reads like nothing new has happened in the discourse since 2011 except the development of interest in deep learning. Eliezer is still arguing with people exhibiting the same sorts of confusions he addressed in the Sequences. This seems like evidence that the “keep trying” behavior has long since hit diminishing returns relative to what I’d expect a “reorient” behavior to accomplish, e.g. more investigation into the causes of this kind of recalcitrance.
This reads like nothing new has happened in the discourse since 2011 except the development of interest in deep learning. Eliezer is still arguing with people exhibiting the same sorts of confusions he addressed in the Sequences. This seems like evidence that the “keep trying” behavior has long since hit diminishing returns relative to what I’d expect a “reorient” behavior to accomplish, e.g. more investigation into the causes of this kind of recalcitrance.