Yeesh. These people shouldn’t let feelings or appearances influence their opinions of EY’s trustworthiness—or “morally repulsive” ideas like justifications for genocide. That’s why I feel it’s perfectly rational to dismiss their criticisms—that and the fact that there’s no evidence backing up their claims. How can there be? After all, as I explain here, Bayesian epistemology is central to LW-style rationality and related ideas like Friendly AI and effective altruism. Frankly, with the kind of muddle-headed thinking those haters display, they don’t really deserve the insights that LW provides.
There, that’s 8 out of 10 bullet points. I couldn’t get the “manipulation” one in because “something sinister” is underspecified; as to the “censorship” one, well, I didn’t want to mention the… thing… (ooh, meta! Gonna give myself partial credit for that one.)
Ab, V qba’g npghnyyl ubyq gur ivrjf V rkcerffrq nobir; vg’f whfg n wbxr.
That was pretty subtle, actually. You had my blood boiling at the end of the first paragraph and I was about to downvote. Luckily I decided to read the rest.
That makes me more curious; I have the feeling there’s quite a bit of anti-geek/nerd sentiment among geeks/nerds, not just non-nerds.
(Not sure how to write the above sentence in a way that doesn’t sound like an implicit demand for more information! I recognize you might be unable or unwilling to elaborate on this.)
Most of them are geeks/nerds in general, or at least have seen themselves as such at some point in their lives.
Yeesh. These people shouldn’t let feelings or appearances influence their opinions of EY’s trustworthiness—or “morally repulsive” ideas like justifications for genocide. That’s why I feel it’s perfectly rational to dismiss their criticisms—that and the fact that there’s no evidence backing up their claims. How can there be? After all, as I explain here, Bayesian epistemology is central to LW-style rationality and related ideas like Friendly AI and effective altruism. Frankly, with the kind of muddle-headed thinking those haters display, they don’t really deserve the insights that LW provides.
There, that’s 8 out of 10 bullet points. I couldn’t get the “manipulation” one in because “something sinister” is underspecified; as to the “censorship” one, well, I didn’t want to mention the… thing… (ooh, meta! Gonna give myself partial credit for that one.)
Ab, V qba’g npghnyyl ubyq gur ivrjf V rkcerffrq nobir; vg’f whfg n wbxr.
That was pretty subtle, actually. You had my blood boiling at the end of the first paragraph and I was about to downvote. Luckily I decided to read the rest.
That makes me more curious; I have the feeling there’s quite a bit of anti-geek/nerd sentiment among geeks/nerds, not just non-nerds.
(Not sure how to write the above sentence in a way that doesn’t sound like an implicit demand for more information! I recognize you might be unable or unwilling to elaborate on this.)