It seems less and less like a Prisoner’s Dilemma the more I think about it. Chances are, “oops” I messed up.
I still feel like the thing with famous names like Sam Harris, is that there is a “drag” force on his penetration on the culture nowadays because there is a bunch of history that has been (incorrectly) publicized. His name is associated with controversy; despite his best to avoid it.
I feel like you need to overcome a “barrier to entry” when listening to him. Unlike Eliezer, who’s public image (in my limited opinion) is actually new user friendly.
Somehow this all is meant to tie back to Prisoner’s Dilemmas. And in my head, it for some reason does. Perhaps I ought to prune that connection. Let me try my best to fully explain that link:
It’s a multi stage “chess game” in where you engage with the ideas that you hear from someone like Sam Harris; but there is doubt because there is a (misconception) of him saying “Muslims are bad” (a trivialization of the argument). What makes me think of a Prisoner’s Dilemma is this: you have to engage into “cooperate” or “don’t cooperate” game with the message based on nothing more or less then reputation of the source.
Sam doesn’t necessarily broadcast his basic values regularly that I can see. He’s a thoughtful, quite rational person; but I feel like he forgets that his image needs work. He needs to do qumbaiya as it were, once a while. To reaffirm his basic beliefs in life and it’s preciousness. (And I bet if I look, I’d find some, but it rarely percolates up on the feed).
Anyway. Chances are I am wrong on using the concept of Prisoner’s Dilemma here. Sorry.
It seems less and less like a Prisoner’s Dilemma the more I think about it. Chances are, “oops” I messed up.
I still feel like the thing with famous names like Sam Harris, is that there is a “drag” force on his penetration on the culture nowadays because there is a bunch of history that has been (incorrectly) publicized. His name is associated with controversy; despite his best to avoid it.
I feel like you need to overcome a “barrier to entry” when listening to him. Unlike Eliezer, who’s public image (in my limited opinion) is actually new user friendly.
Somehow this all is meant to tie back to Prisoner’s Dilemmas. And in my head, it for some reason does. Perhaps I ought to prune that connection. Let me try my best to fully explain that link:
It’s a multi stage “chess game” in where you engage with the ideas that you hear from someone like Sam Harris; but there is doubt because there is a (misconception) of him saying “Muslims are bad” (a trivialization of the argument). What makes me think of a Prisoner’s Dilemma is this: you have to engage into “cooperate” or “don’t cooperate” game with the message based on nothing more or less then reputation of the source.
Sam doesn’t necessarily broadcast his basic values regularly that I can see. He’s a thoughtful, quite rational person; but I feel like he forgets that his image needs work. He needs to do qumbaiya as it were, once a while. To reaffirm his basic beliefs in life and it’s preciousness. (And I bet if I look, I’d find some, but it rarely percolates up on the feed).
Anyway. Chances are I am wrong on using the concept of Prisoner’s Dilemma here. Sorry.