I assumed it was primarily because Eliezer “strongly approved” of it, after being overwhelmingly pessimistic about pretty much everything for so long.
I didn’t realize it got popular elsewhere, that makes sense though and could help explain the crazy number of upvotes. Would make me feel better about the community’s epistemic health if the explanation isn’t that we’re just overweighting one person’s views.
I assumed it was primarily because Eliezer “strongly approved” of it, after being overwhelmingly pessimistic about pretty much everything for so long.
I didn’t realize it got popular elsewhere, that makes sense though and could help explain the crazy number of upvotes. Would make me feel better about the community’s epistemic health if the explanation isn’t that we’re just overweighting one person’s views.