I read the grandparent post as an attempt to assert authority and tell people to sit down, shut up, and attend to their betters.
I don’t have a PhD in AI and don’t work for MIRI. Is there some kind of special phrasing I can recite in order to indicate I actually, genuinely perceive this as a difference of knowledge levels rather than a status dispute?
Is there some kind of special phrasing I can recite in order to indicate I actually, genuinely perceive this as a difference of knowledge levels rather than a status dispute?
Special phrasing? What’s wrong with normal, usual, standard, widespread phrasing?
You avoid expressions like “I am a trained computer scientist” (which sounds pretty silly anyway—so you’ve been trained to do tricks for food, er, grants?) and you use words along the lines of “you misunderstand X because...”, “you do not take into account Y which says...”, “this claim is wrong because of Z...”, etc.
There is also, of course, the underappreciated option to just stay silent. I trust you know the appropriate xkcd?
“I am a trained computer scientist” (which sounds pretty silly anyway—so you’ve been trained to do tricks for food, er, grants?)
Yes, that’s precisely it. I have been trained to do tricks for free food/grants/salary. Some of them are quite complicated tricks, involving things like walking into my adviser’s office and pretending I actually believe p-values of less than 5% mean anything at all when we have 26 data corpuses. Or hell, pretending I actually believe in frequentism.
I don’t have a PhD in AI and don’t work for MIRI. Is there some kind of special phrasing I can recite in order to indicate I actually, genuinely perceive this as a difference of knowledge levels rather than a status dispute?
Special phrasing? What’s wrong with normal, usual, standard, widespread phrasing?
You avoid expressions like “I am a trained computer scientist” (which sounds pretty silly anyway—so you’ve been trained to do tricks for food, er, grants?) and you use words along the lines of “you misunderstand X because...”, “you do not take into account Y which says...”, “this claim is wrong because of Z...”, etc.
There is also, of course, the underappreciated option to just stay silent. I trust you know the appropriate xkcd?
Yes, that’s precisely it. I have been trained to do tricks for free food/grants/salary. Some of them are quite complicated tricks, involving things like walking into my adviser’s office and pretending I actually believe p-values of less than 5% mean anything at all when we have 26 data corpuses. Or hell, pretending I actually believe in frequentism.
Oh, good. Just keep practicing and soon you’ll be a bona fide member of the academic establishment :-P