I didn’t mean to imply that you in particular didn’t understand the reward point, and I apologize for not writing my original comment more clearly in that respect. Out of nearly everyone on the site, I am most persuaded that you understood this “back in the day.”
I meant to communicate something like “I think the quoted segment from Rohin and Dmitrii’s post is incorrect and will reliably lead people to false beliefs.”
As I mentioned elsewhere (not this website) I don’t agree with “will reliably lead people to false beliefs”, if we’re talking about ML people rather than LW people (as was my audience for that blog post).
I do think that it’s a reasonable hypothesis to have, and I assign it more likelihood than I would have a year ago (in large part from you pushing some ML people on this point, and them not getting it as fast as I would have expected).
I didn’t mean to imply that you in particular didn’t understand the reward point, and I apologize for not writing my original comment more clearly in that respect. Out of nearly everyone on the site, I am most persuaded that you understood this “back in the day.”
I meant to communicate something like “I think the quoted segment from Rohin and Dmitrii’s post is incorrect and will reliably lead people to false beliefs.”
Thanks for the edit :)
As I mentioned elsewhere (not this website) I don’t agree with “will reliably lead people to false beliefs”, if we’re talking about ML people rather than LW people (as was my audience for that blog post).
I do think that it’s a reasonable hypothesis to have, and I assign it more likelihood than I would have a year ago (in large part from you pushing some ML people on this point, and them not getting it as fast as I would have expected).