Calling it an “unambiguously bad post” definitely sounds like unhelpful trolling, not genuine approval. If you have similar “praise” in the future, I suggest you word it more carefully.
fair enough. I stand by the general region of sentiment, but perhaps I could have phrased the most detailed level of it better. shrug. I find most soares posts facepalm worthy, and I appreciate that he dressed his ideas up less so that disagreement can begin to engage more reasonably. I think he could be much more useful to the alignment field if he could write some consistently downvote-worthy posts for a bit: for example, here he revealed a deep misunderstanding of gradient descent. I think his polished posts have a tendency to expose the erroneous parts of his worldview less and I want to see him dare to expose those so we can get to the part where his critiques land already.
Calling it an “unambiguously bad post” definitely sounds like unhelpful trolling, not genuine approval. If you have similar “praise” in the future, I suggest you word it more carefully.
fair enough. I stand by the general region of sentiment, but perhaps I could have phrased the most detailed level of it better. shrug. I find most soares posts facepalm worthy, and I appreciate that he dressed his ideas up less so that disagreement can begin to engage more reasonably. I think he could be much more useful to the alignment field if he could write some consistently downvote-worthy posts for a bit: for example, here he revealed a deep misunderstanding of gradient descent. I think his polished posts have a tendency to expose the erroneous parts of his worldview less and I want to see him dare to expose those so we can get to the part where his critiques land already.