I’m going to make a controversial suggestion: one useful target of tolerance might be religion.
I’ll try to tolerate your tolerance.
(I blog using any examples that come to hand, but when I canonicalize I try to remove explicit mentions of religion where possible. Bear in mind that intelligent religious people with Escher-minds will see the implications early on, though.)
The term “canonical” has a somewhat different definition in the fields of math and computer science. Eliezer is probably using it influenced by this definition, in the sense of “converting his writing into canonical form”, as opposed to an ad-hoc or temporary form. In my experience, the construction “canonicalize” refers almost exclusively to this sense of the word.
I’ll try to tolerate your tolerance.
(I blog using any examples that come to hand, but when I canonicalize I try to remove explicit mentions of religion where possible. Bear in mind that intelligent religious people with Escher-minds will see the implications early on, though.)
You canonicalize?
Where can we find your canon, and is it marked as canonical?
This might (partly) answer your question:
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/09/why-im-blooking.html
So he means a future canon? I can’t go somewhere today and find it?
(I disapprove of anyone calling some of their own non-fiction works ‘canonical’, but without conviction, never having thought about it before.)
The term “canonical” has a somewhat different definition in the fields of math and computer science. Eliezer is probably using it influenced by this definition, in the sense of “converting his writing into canonical form”, as opposed to an ad-hoc or temporary form. In my experience, the construction “canonicalize” refers almost exclusively to this sense of the word.
See the Jargon File entry for clarification.
Sadly true.