The latter is a sufficiently valid statement. For what it’s worth, “ideology” is not a term that carries the meaning you were working with in “a previously-described idea”, so this should have been somewhat more obvious.
On a more important level: I don’t care about what Eliezer wrote there, in this thread, for a very simple reason: It’s not relevant to the discussion. Whether or not it’s been said before, or whether or not Eliezer is the one who said it, just doesn’t matter.
The latter is a sufficiently valid statement. For what it’s worth, “ideology” is not a term that carries the meaning you were working with in “a previously-described idea”, so this should have been somewhat more obvious.
You’re right, that was a bad choice of words. I apologize for the confusion.
The latter is a sufficiently valid statement. For what it’s worth, “ideology” is not a term that carries the meaning you were working with in “a previously-described idea”, so this should have been somewhat more obvious.
On a more important level: I don’t care about what Eliezer wrote there, in this thread, for a very simple reason: It’s not relevant to the discussion. Whether or not it’s been said before, or whether or not Eliezer is the one who said it, just doesn’t matter.
You’re right, that was a bad choice of words. I apologize for the confusion.