To be clear, a lot of what I find so relaxing about Jessica’s post is that my experience reading it is of seeing someone who is successfully noticing a bunch of details in a way that, relative to what I’m trying to track, leaves room for lots of different things to get sorted out separately.
I just got an email that led me to sort of triggeredly worry that folks will take my publicly agreeing with the OP to mean that I e.g. think MIRI is bad in general. I don’t think that; I really like MIRI and have huge respect and appreciation for a lot of the people there; I also like many things about the CFAR experiment and love basically all of the people who worked there; I think there’s a lot to value across this whole space.
I like the detailed specific points that are made in the OP (with some specific disagreements; though also with corroborating detail I can add in various places); I think this whole “how do we make sense of what happens when people get together into groups? and what happened exactly in the different groups?” question is an unusually good time to lean on detail-tracking and reading comprehension.
To be clear, a lot of what I find so relaxing about Jessica’s post is that my experience reading it is of seeing someone who is successfully noticing a bunch of details in a way that, relative to what I’m trying to track, leaves room for lots of different things to get sorted out separately.
I just got an email that led me to sort of triggeredly worry that folks will take my publicly agreeing with the OP to mean that I e.g. think MIRI is bad in general. I don’t think that; I really like MIRI and have huge respect and appreciation for a lot of the people there; I also like many things about the CFAR experiment and love basically all of the people who worked there; I think there’s a lot to value across this whole space.
I like the detailed specific points that are made in the OP (with some specific disagreements; though also with corroborating detail I can add in various places); I think this whole “how do we make sense of what happens when people get together into groups? and what happened exactly in the different groups?” question is an unusually good time to lean on detail-tracking and reading comprehension.
[I deleted a comment in this thread because I realized it belonged in a different thread. Just being clumsy, sry.]