He doesn’t give The Answer. That’s one of the problems. I’ve read the sequences, and I don’t think his approach is that good. The other problem is that doing high-cost things at random, in the hope that they will pay off, is very inefficient.
Pointing to Eliezer’s sequence on free will is not random, neither is it a high cost to spend five minutes by the clock — or five hours — studying them. A teacher can only provide materials for study. It is up to the student to do the work, and to choose what work to do.
He doesn’t give The Answer. That’s one of the problems. I’ve read the sequences, and I don’t think his approach is that good. The other problem is that doing high-cost things at random, in the hope that they will pay off, is very inefficient.
Pointing to Eliezer’s sequence on free will is not random, neither is it a high cost to spend five minutes by the clock — or five hours — studying them. A teacher can only provide materials for study. It is up to the student to do the work, and to choose what work to do.
If it only takes five minutes, it is like buying a loaf of bread.