Having followed the original thread with some interest, I find the whole situation somewhat amusing. If anything, gwern should have stopped engaging you earlier rather than later, but that’s his noble phantasm—and so here we are.
I imagine this now follows a death spiral of some sort, where you forum-seek for someone, somewhere, who agrees with you on this minor political point.
So, “people shouldn’t be assholes” is a minor political point? If this is such minor point, why did EY write an entire article on the point, and why is this article one of the most prominently linked-to article?
‘noble phantasm’ is probably a reference to Fate/Stay Night, wherein a noble phantasm is a weapon or object of unusual reknown which a certain class of beings have that grants them signature powers.
Having followed the original thread with some interest, I find the whole situation somewhat amusing. If anything, gwern should have stopped engaging you earlier rather than later, but that’s his noble phantasm—and so here we are.
I imagine this now follows a death spiral of some sort, where you forum-seek for someone, somewhere, who agrees with you on this minor political point.
Do you have something substantive to say about why gwern should have stopped engaging with me?
So, “people shouldn’t be assholes” is a minor political point? If this is such minor point, why did EY write an entire article on the point, and why is this article one of the most prominently linked-to article?
Being an asshole is noble?
‘noble phantasm’ is probably a reference to Fate/Stay Night, wherein a noble phantasm is a weapon or object of unusual reknown which a certain class of beings have that grants them signature powers.