I stand by the sequences too. Except I’m agnostic about MWI, not because it makes no new predictions or another silly reason like that, but because I’m not smart and conscientious enough to read that particular sequence + a textbook about QM. And unlike you I’m sure that Eliezer’s answer to the metaethics problem is correct, to the point that I can’t imagine how it could be otherwise.
It’s true that one possible reason why good contrarians are hard to find is that the group is starting to be cult-like, but another such reason is that the contrarians are just wrong.
I stand by the sequences too. Except I’m agnostic about MWI, not because it makes no new predictions or another silly reason like that, but because I’m not smart and conscientious enough to read that particular sequence + a textbook about QM. And unlike you I’m sure that Eliezer’s answer to the metaethics problem is correct, to the point that I can’t imagine how it could be otherwise.
It’s true that one possible reason why good contrarians are hard to find is that the group is starting to be cult-like, but another such reason is that the contrarians are just wrong.