Yes it is. It is better. It is also longer. It is about a more mathy topic. It is posted nearer to the present. It is less upvoted, it is less controversial, it is more approved. It is not by the same author. It is more similar to a Hofstadter book. It is less similar to the book “Primate Sexuality 1999”. Just because something is better, or more important, doesn’t make it not comparable in any dimension. The only reason for me to mention Yudkowsky’s post is because both his, and the other post (also very important on programmer career and donations) were posted less than 45 minutes after mine, making mine go down (by chance) a lot on the website scroll. Even then, my post had way more votes at that moment, and more upvotes, I just wanted to see if his true rejection was his alleged rejection, or if he would circumvent it by not saying anything (which he did), or saying that now there was this other reason for the same conclusion.
And that is not in any way because I want to challenge Eliezer or something. For all I know, Eliezer has the highest probability of being among the three most counterfactually important people alive (Contenders being Hanson, Bostrom, Gates, Thiel, James Martin, Musk and Myrvold). I’ve once even gave a presentation with deliberate intent of being less good than someone else’s, just so that Eliezer would appreciate and interact with the other person (they still work together/aligned to this day) because I knew how important his attention was.
If you go to Mr Ifey story (Idealized Fiction of Eliezer Yudkowky) in this post,
you’ll see that besides phisically threatening me or my dears with a blade, there is nearly nothing Eliezer could ever do that would make me not like him. People have trouble with his arrogance, which was by far what I most enjoyed back at SL4 in 2004.
Yes it is. It is better. It is also longer. It is about a more mathy topic. It is posted nearer to the present. It is less upvoted, it is less controversial, it is more approved. It is not by the same author. It is more similar to a Hofstadter book. It is less similar to the book “Primate Sexuality 1999”. Just because something is better, or more important, doesn’t make it not comparable in any dimension. The only reason for me to mention Yudkowsky’s post is because both his, and the other post (also very important on programmer career and donations) were posted less than 45 minutes after mine, making mine go down (by chance) a lot on the website scroll. Even then, my post had way more votes at that moment, and more upvotes, I just wanted to see if his true rejection was his alleged rejection, or if he would circumvent it by not saying anything (which he did), or saying that now there was this other reason for the same conclusion.
And that is not in any way because I want to challenge Eliezer or something. For all I know, Eliezer has the highest probability of being among the three most counterfactually important people alive (Contenders being Hanson, Bostrom, Gates, Thiel, James Martin, Musk and Myrvold). I’ve once even gave a presentation with deliberate intent of being less good than someone else’s, just so that Eliezer would appreciate and interact with the other person (they still work together/aligned to this day) because I knew how important his attention was.
If you go to Mr Ifey story (Idealized Fiction of Eliezer Yudkowky) in this post,
http://lesswrong.com/lw/g87/calibrating_against_undetectable_utilons_and_goal/
you’ll see that besides phisically threatening me or my dears with a blade, there is nearly nothing Eliezer could ever do that would make me not like him. People have trouble with his arrogance, which was by far what I most enjoyed back at SL4 in 2004.