Not mean-spirited. Just honest. If this were a private conversation, I’d keep my thoughts to myself and leave in search of more rational company, but when someone starts publicly saying things like...
“Eliezer [is] proclaiming that it’s not canon for this community.”
“The comment is basically like, ‘Scott Alexander good boy. We have paid him recently. Anissimov bad. Bad Anissimov no work for us no more.’”
Accusing Eliezer of dismissing an idea out of hand due to fear of public unpopularity.
(all of which are grossly unfair readings of Eliezer’s coment)
Not that much more unfair than proclaiming something thoroughly refuted and uninteresting based on a single post rebutting the least interesting claims of only two authors, especially given that what appears to have gotten picked up as the central point of the post (NK/SK) is wrong on many different levels.
Not mean-spirited. Just honest. If this were a private conversation, I’d keep my thoughts to myself and leave in search of more rational company, but when someone starts publicly saying things like...
“Eliezer [is] proclaiming that it’s not canon for this community.”
“The comment is basically like, ‘Scott Alexander good boy. We have paid him recently. Anissimov bad. Bad Anissimov no work for us no more.’”
Accusing Eliezer of dismissing an idea out of hand due to fear of public unpopularity.
(all of which are grossly unfair readings of Eliezer’s coment)
...then I think some bluntness is called for.
Not that much more unfair than proclaiming something thoroughly refuted and uninteresting based on a single post rebutting the least interesting claims of only two authors, especially given that what appears to have gotten picked up as the central point of the post (NK/SK) is wrong on many different levels.