Midwits are often very impressed with themselves for knowing a fancy economic rule like Ricardo’s Law of Comparative Advantage!
Could we have less of this sort of thing, please? I know it’s a crosspost from another site with less well-kept discussion norms, but I wouldn’t want this to become a thing here as well, any more than it already has.
I agree but I’m not very optimistic about anything changing. Eliezer is often this caustic when correcting what he perceives as basic errors, and criticism in LW comments is why he stopped writing Sequences posts.
Personal communication (sorry). Not that I know him well, this was at an event in 2022. It could have been a “straw that broke the camel’s back” thing with other contributing factors, like reaching diminishing returns on more content. I’d appreciate a real source too.
I agree, this statement didn’t add anything of substance (indeed, it’s meaning is almost reversed in the following sentence). It seemed like an extraneous ad hominem buying nothing.
Could we have less of this sort of thing, please? I know it’s a crosspost from another site with less well-kept discussion norms, but I wouldn’t want this to become a thing here as well, any more than it already has.
I agree but I’m not very optimistic about anything changing. Eliezer is often this caustic when correcting what he perceives as basic errors, and criticism in LW comments is why he stopped writing Sequences posts.
I wasn’t aware of this and would like more information. Can anyone provide a source, or report their agreement or disagreement with the claim?
Personal communication (sorry). Not that I know him well, this was at an event in 2022. It could have been a “straw that broke the camel’s back” thing with other contributing factors, like reaching diminishing returns on more content. I’d appreciate a real source too.
I agree, this statement didn’t add anything of substance (indeed, it’s meaning is almost reversed in the following sentence). It seemed like an extraneous ad hominem buying nothing.