Eliezer sounds good whenever he’s talking about a topic that I don’t know anything about.
But then you go on to talk about a bunch of philosophy & decision theory questions that no one has actual “expertise” in, except the sort that comes from reading other people talk about the thing. I was hoping Eliezer had said something about say, carpentry that you disagreed with, because then the dispute would be much more obvious and concrete. As it stands I disagree with your reasoning on the sample of questions I scanned and so it seems to me like this is sufficient to explain the dispute.
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But then you go on to talk about a bunch of philosophy & decision theory questions that no one has actual “expertise” in, except the sort that comes from reading other people talk about the thing. I was hoping Eliezer had said something about say, carpentry that you disagreed with, because then the dispute would be much more obvious and concrete. As it stands I disagree with your reasoning on the sample of questions I scanned and so it seems to me like this is sufficient to explain the dispute.