It demonstrate that you don’t. Humans make decisions via something called the availability heuristic.
If you bring into the awareness of the person that you are talking that you are a mathematician that only has a bachleor, no master, no PHD and no professorship that you aren’t bringing expertise into his mind.
If you are however a self taught person who managed to published multiple papers among them a paper titled “Complex Value Systems in Friendly AI” in Artificial General Intelligence Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume and who has his own research institute that’s a better picture.
If you have published papers that a lot more relevant for relevant experts than whether you have a degree that verifies basic understanding.
If a person really cares whether Eliezer has a math degree he already lost that person.
It demonstrate that you don’t. Humans make decisions via something called the availability heuristic.
If you bring into the awareness of the person that you are talking that you are a mathematician that only has a bachleor, no master, no PHD and no professorship that you aren’t bringing expertise into his mind.
If you are however a self taught person who managed to published multiple papers among them a paper titled “Complex Value Systems in Friendly AI” in Artificial General Intelligence Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume and who has his own research institute that’s a better picture.
If you have published papers that a lot more relevant for relevant experts than whether you have a degree that verifies basic understanding. If a person really cares whether Eliezer has a math degree he already lost that person.