Will is pretty weird and I don’t believe the way he thinks is, ya’ know, normative. But I still find his writing to be extremely valuable relative to most Less Wrong commenters because for the most part Less Wrong commenters come in three different flavors: vanilla (what I would say if I weren’t as smart or 3-4 years less educated), chocolate (what I would say now) and strawberry (what I would say if I were smarter or 3-4 years more educated). Will is lobster ice cream with rainbow jimmies. I will never think like him and I wouldn’t want to. But I’m glad there is someone extending hypotheses as far as they will go and never looking back. I find novel explorations of hypothesis space to be both useful and interesting. He is pursuing a train of thought I don’t have a lot of time for and no reason to prioritize. But I’m still looking forward to finding out where it ends up.
Will is like a musician on a hallucinogen. You wouldn’t want to have his brain and you probably don’t trust his judgment. But before he burns out at 27 he’s gonna produce some really interesting ideas, some of which will simply be absurd but a few of which might have real staying power and influence a generation.
Will is pretty weird and I don’t believe the way he thinks is, ya’ know, normative. But I still find his writing to be extremely valuable relative to most Less Wrong commenters because for the most part Less Wrong commenters come in three different flavors: vanilla (what I would say if I weren’t as smart or 3-4 years less educated), chocolate (what I would say now) and strawberry (what I would say if I were smarter or 3-4 years more educated). Will is lobster ice cream with rainbow jimmies. I will never think like him and I wouldn’t want to. But I’m glad there is someone extending hypotheses as far as they will go and never looking back. I find novel explorations of hypothesis space to be both useful and interesting. He is pursuing a train of thought I don’t have a lot of time for and no reason to prioritize. But I’m still looking forward to finding out where it ends up.
Will is like a musician on a hallucinogen. You wouldn’t want to have his brain and you probably don’t trust his judgment. But before he burns out at 27 he’s gonna produce some really interesting ideas, some of which will simply be absurd but a few of which might have real staying power and influence a generation.