About 2-3 months earlier, I chatted with Eliezer at a party. Afterward, on the drive home, I said to my friend
“Gosh, Eliezer looks awfully spindly. It looks like he’s lost weight, but it’s all gone from his face and his arms.”
I was starting to make all these updates about how it doesn’t look good to lose weight when you’re hitting 40, and that it’s important to lose weight early, and so on.
I told this to Eliezer later. He said I got points for noticing my confusion, which I was pleased about.
I think it’s more like “people who are currently struggling to lose weight, or get out of negative cycles of crippling anxiety about it, seeing it made light of is hurtful.” (I think one can hold a legitimate position that that’s a real problem they can’t just ‘snap out of’ or whatnot, and that watching the speech would be legitimately harmful to them, independent of whether you think it’s better on-net for society to cater to that)
My actual current position was something like “it was good to move it to the end as an ‘after-the-credits’ scene, and good to describe it as optional, but because everyone was still seated and in some cases it was really awkward to move around, it didn’t really feel like a live option, and it would have been better to do something like ‘let people start to leave slightly before starting the bit so that people who wanted to keep moving out had an easier time doing so’”
That was excellent, and I quite enjoyed watching it. I’m not going to spoil it for anyone who’s not seen yet, of course, but I just want to say:
Well done, Eliezer!
Yeah, after watching that, I can’t see how anyone reasonable could dislike it. That was awesome.
You know,
About 2-3 months earlier, I chatted with Eliezer at a party. Afterward, on the drive home, I said to my friend
“Gosh, Eliezer looks awfully spindly. It looks like he’s lost weight, but it’s all gone from his face and his arms.”
I was starting to make all these updates about how it doesn’t look good to lose weight when you’re hitting 40, and that it’s important to lose weight early, and so on.
I told this to Eliezer later. He said I got points for noticing my confusion, which I was pleased about.
Maybe people who rationalized their failure to lose weight by “well, even Eliezer is overweight, it’s just metabolic disprivilege”
I think it’s more like “people who are currently struggling to lose weight, or get out of negative cycles of crippling anxiety about it, seeing it made light of is hurtful.” (I think one can hold a legitimate position that that’s a real problem they can’t just ‘snap out of’ or whatnot, and that watching the speech would be legitimately harmful to them, independent of whether you think it’s better on-net for society to cater to that)
My actual current position was something like “it was good to move it to the end as an ‘after-the-credits’ scene, and good to describe it as optional, but because everyone was still seated and in some cases it was really awkward to move around, it didn’t really feel like a live option, and it would have been better to do something like ‘let people start to leave slightly before starting the bit so that people who wanted to keep moving out had an easier time doing so’”