I strongly agree that the methodology should have presented up front. lsusr’s response is illuminative and gives invaluable context.
But my first reaction to your comment was to note the aggressive tone and what feels like borderline name-calling. This made me want to downvote and ignore it at first, before I thought for a minute and realized that yes, on the object level this is a very important point. It made it difficult for me to engage with it.
So I’d like to ask you what exactly you meant (because it’s easy to mistake tone on the internet) and why. Calling the LW audience (i.e. including me) ‘alarmist and uninformed’ I can understand (if not necessarily agree with) but ‘an AGI death cult’? That seems to mean a cult that wants to bring about death through AGI but that’s the opposite of what LW is about and so I’m pretty sure you didn’t mean that. Please clarify.
I strongly agree that the methodology should have presented up front. lsusr’s response is illuminative and gives invaluable context.
But my first reaction to your comment was to note the aggressive tone and what feels like borderline name-calling. This made me want to downvote and ignore it at first, before I thought for a minute and realized that yes, on the object level this is a very important point. It made it difficult for me to engage with it.
So I’d like to ask you what exactly you meant (because it’s easy to mistake tone on the internet) and why. Calling the LW audience (i.e. including me) ‘alarmist and uninformed’ I can understand (if not necessarily agree with) but ‘an AGI death cult’? That seems to mean a cult that wants to bring about death through AGI but that’s the opposite of what LW is about and so I’m pretty sure you didn’t mean that. Please clarify.