Bold claims about objective reality, unbacked by evidence, seemingly not very useful or interesting (though this is subjective) and backed by appeal to tribal values (declaring AI alignment as a core issue, blue tribe neoliberalism assumed as being the status quo...etc).
This seems to go against the kind of things I ever assumed could make it to less wrong sans-covid, yet here it is heavily upvoted.
I think it is. The post is not intended to be a list of things the author believes, but rather a collection of high-level narratives that various people use when thinking about the impact of their decisions on the world. As such, you wouldn’t really expect extensive evidence supporting them, since the post isn’t trying to claim that they are correct.
Bold claims about objective reality, unbacked by evidence, seemingly not very useful or interesting (though this is subjective) and backed by appeal to tribal values (declaring AI alignment as a core issue, blue tribe neoliberalism assumed as being the status quo...etc).
This seems to go against the kind of things I ever assumed could make it to less wrong sans-covid, yet here it is heavily upvoted.
Is my take here overly critical ?
I think it is. The post is not intended to be a list of things the author believes, but rather a collection of high-level narratives that various people use when thinking about the impact of their decisions on the world. As such, you wouldn’t really expect extensive evidence supporting them, since the post isn’t trying to claim that they are correct.