See, if people trying to bring in a new age where people can be brought in line to the legitimate views can just stop posting nonsense like this maybe we can get somewhere. Great, now one of the few legitimate blogs we had now look crazy and we would be delegitimized if we link to it.
I put higher weight on joking than crazy. He might be trying to build up plausible deniability for past/future claims that he really believes in but could get him fired.
The post is about how he was born in a parallel world and then woke up in this world. It’s full of statements intended to be plausible deniable and therefore complicated to read. Eliezer withdraw the post from LW.
See, if people trying to bring in a new age where people can be brought in line to the legitimate views can just stop posting nonsense like this maybe we can get somewhere. Great, now one of the few legitimate blogs we had now look crazy and we would be delegitimized if we link to it.
I put higher weight on joking than crazy. He might be trying to build up plausible deniability for past/future claims that he really believes in but could get him fired.
I don’t think that strategy is likely to succeed. Just look at the criticism that Eliezer got after his April first post.
I think the most charitable reading is that he wants to run an experiment on his audience to see the effect of writing utter crap.
I sure hope that we get a post in a few days saying ‘It seems I can’t Social Text you guys.’
What happened? What is this post?
The post is about how he was born in a parallel world and then woke up in this world. It’s full of statements intended to be plausible deniable and therefore complicated to read. Eliezer withdraw the post from LW.