I wish there were some transparency in what he is involved in and to what degree. Not a wholly unreasonable thing to ask from a non-profit. Hopefully major donors have a better visibility into the SI/EY day-to-day operation.
EY should start a webshow called day in the life of EY which is just a webcam attached to his head so we can know more about his personal life than he already shares with us xD
(I am chagrined to admit that when I first heard about that event, it was just described as a “Toronto professor,” and I thought “How unfortunate!” When I later discovered it was Mann I was like “Oh, well, that explains it then.”)
(Yes, which allows Konkvistador to upgrade his confidence significantly beyond ‘guess’ to ‘know with reasonable confidence because it is stated and there isn’t much reason for it to be a lie’.)
Whatever this project is, it must be something truly exceptional, to preempt a useful project presumably close to publication.
From what I understand (guess) Eliezer is doing a lot of work on the new centre for rationality spin off from SI.
I wish there were some transparency in what he is involved in and to what degree. Not a wholly unreasonable thing to ask from a non-profit. Hopefully major donors have a better visibility into the SI/EY day-to-day operation.
EY should start a webshow called day in the life of EY which is just a webcam attached to his head so we can know more about his personal life than he already shares with us xD
But he ought not go to France if he does.
(I am chagrined to admit that when I first heard about that event, it was just described as a “Toronto professor,” and I thought “How unfortunate!” When I later discovered it was Mann I was like “Oh, well, that explains it then.”)
I have no idea what you are referring to.
Ack! Wrong link!
That’s embarrassing.
Link fixed.
At least, that’s what he tells his HPMoR readers!
Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Better yet,
-Eliezer Yudkowsky
(Yes, which allows Konkvistador to upgrade his confidence significantly beyond ‘guess’ to ‘know with reasonable confidence because it is stated and there isn’t much reason for it to be a lie’.)