I wasn’t making an analogy exactly. Rather, that example was used to point out that there appears to be some route to believing any proposition that isn’t blatant gibberish. And I think Eliezer is the sort of person who could find a way to self-hack in that way if he wanted to; that more or less used to be his ‘thing’.
Wouldn’t a real animal that’s not even much like a panda be called something else?
Exactly—“red pandas” were clearly made up for Avatar: the Last Airbender.
I wasn’t making an analogy exactly. Rather, that example was used to point out that there appears to be some route to believing any proposition that isn’t blatant gibberish. And I think Eliezer is the sort of person who could find a way to self-hack in that way if he wanted to; that more or less used to be his ‘thing’.
Exactly—“red pandas” were clearly made up for Avatar: the Last Airbender.
No, in AtLA they’re called “fire ferrets”.