Given how long it took me to conclude whether these were Eliezer’s true thoughts or a representation of his predicted thoughts in a somewhat probable future, I’m not sure whether I’d use the label “candid” to describe the post, at least without qualification.
While the post does contain a genuinely useful way of framing near-hopeless situations and a nuanced and relatively terse lesson in practical ethics, I would describe the post as an extremely next-level play in terms of its broader purpose (and leave it at that).
Given how long it took me to conclude whether these were Eliezer’s true thoughts or a representation of his predicted thoughts in a somewhat probable future, I’m not sure whether I’d use the label “candid” to describe the post, at least without qualification.
While the post does contain a genuinely useful way of framing near-hopeless situations and a nuanced and relatively terse lesson in practical ethics, I would describe the post as an extremely next-level play in terms of its broader purpose (and leave it at that).