I agree Eliezer’s writing often causes people to believe incorrect things and there are many aspects of his discourse that I wish he’d change, including some of the ones you highlight. I just want to push back on the specific critique of “there are no coherence theorems”.
(In fact, I made this post because I too previously believed incorrect things along these lines, and those incorrect beliefs were probably downstream of arguments made by Eliezer or MIRI, though it’s hard to say exactly what the influences were.)
I agree Eliezer’s writing often causes people to believe incorrect things and there are many aspects of his discourse that I wish he’d change, including some of the ones you highlight. I just want to push back on the specific critique of “there are no coherence theorems”.
(In fact, I made this post because I too previously believed incorrect things along these lines, and those incorrect beliefs were probably downstream of arguments made by Eliezer or MIRI, though it’s hard to say exactly what the influences were.)