Since predictions about the past are cheap, let’s make some ethicophysical predictions about the future.
My work will remain unpopular until it is endorsed by someone who is high status (say, a comparable amount of karma to John Wentworth), and will not truly enter the LessWrong canon until Eliezer Yudkowsky seriously engages with it.
These predictions are pretty obviously true, so I don’t claim many Brier points for making them. But I also can’t claim many Brier points for many points in the ethicophysics, since it’s really just a formalization of common sense applied to the moral domain.
I think it’s more likely you just need to explain yourself better. try making a single post, which is not a linkpost, does not ask the reader to read anything else, is less than 5k words, which explains your ideas end to end without claiming them correct, simply describe what the proposal is without asserting results you don’t have. if you have more than one author, you can use the multiple-author “we”, but use “I” otherwise. in other words, stop propping your ideas up with pompous writing and just explain yourself already.
Since predictions about the past are cheap, let’s make some ethicophysical predictions about the future.
My work will remain unpopular until it is endorsed by someone who is high status (say, a comparable amount of karma to John Wentworth), and will not truly enter the LessWrong canon until Eliezer Yudkowsky seriously engages with it.
These predictions are pretty obviously true, so I don’t claim many Brier points for making them. But I also can’t claim many Brier points for many points in the ethicophysics, since it’s really just a formalization of common sense applied to the moral domain.
I think it’s more likely you just need to explain yourself better. try making a single post, which is not a linkpost, does not ask the reader to read anything else, is less than 5k words, which explains your ideas end to end without claiming them correct, simply describe what the proposal is without asserting results you don’t have. if you have more than one author, you can use the multiple-author “we”, but use “I” otherwise. in other words, stop propping your ideas up with pompous writing and just explain yourself already.
Here is the best I could muster on short notice: https://bittertruths.substack.com/p/ethicophysics-for-skeptics
Since I’m currently rate-limited, I cannot post it officially.