Let’s recap. You made a wrong claim. I responded to the wrong claim. You disputed my response. I refuted your disputation. You attempted to defend your claim. I responded to your defense. You edited your defense by replacing it with the acknowledgment of your mistake.
No, that isn’t what happened. I’m not sure which comment the last sentence is supposed to refer to, but I’m p > .8 it didn’t happen that way. If it’s referring to the statement, “Okay, you don’t actually need randomness,” I wrote that before I ever saw your first response to that comment. But that doesn’t match up with what you just described; there weren’t that many exchanges before that comment. It also doesn’t match up with anything after that comment, since I still don’t acknowledge any such mistake made after that comment.
When you acknowledge your claim is wrong, you should not at the same time criticize me for refuting your point.
We’re talking about 2 separate claims. The wrong claim that I made was in an early statement where I said that you “needed randomness” to explore the space of possible utility functions. The right claim that I made, at length, was that randomness is a useful tool. You are conflating my defense of that claim, with defending the initial wrong claim. You’ve also said that you agree that randomness is a useful tool, which suggests that what is happening is that you made a whole series of comments that I say were attacking claim 2, and that you believe were attacking claim 1.
No, that isn’t what happened. I’m not sure which comment the last sentence is supposed to refer to, but I’m p > .8 it didn’t happen that way. If it’s referring to the statement, “Okay, you don’t actually need randomness,” I wrote that before I ever saw your first response to that comment. But that doesn’t match up with what you just described; there weren’t that many exchanges before that comment. It also doesn’t match up with anything after that comment, since I still don’t acknowledge any such mistake made after that comment.
We’re talking about 2 separate claims. The wrong claim that I made was in an early statement where I said that you “needed randomness” to explore the space of possible utility functions. The right claim that I made, at length, was that randomness is a useful tool. You are conflating my defense of that claim, with defending the initial wrong claim. You’ve also said that you agree that randomness is a useful tool, which suggests that what is happening is that you made a whole series of comments that I say were attacking claim 2, and that you believe were attacking claim 1.