I haven’t been saying I believed it was wrong to censor (although I do think that it’s a bad idea in general). I have been saying I believe it was stupid and counterproductive to censor, and that this is not only clearly evident from the results, but should have been trivially predictable (certainly to anyone who’d been on the Internet for a few years) before the action was taken. And if the LW-homebrewed, lacking in outside review, Timeless Decision Theory was used to reach this bad decision, then TDT was disastrously inadequate (not just slightly inadequate) for application to a non-hypothetical situation and it lessens the expectation that TDT will be adequate for future non-hypothetical situations. And that this should also be obvious.
Yes, the attempt to censor was botched and I regret the botchery. In retrospect I should have not commented or explained anything, just PM’d Roko and asked him to take down the post without explaining himself.
This is actually quite comforting to know. Thank you.
(I still wonder WHAT ON EARTH WERE YOU THINKING at the time, but you’ll answer as and when you think it’s a good idea to, and that’s fine.)
(I was down the pub with ciphergoth just now and this topic came up … I said the Very Bad Idea sounded silly as an idea, he said it wasn’t as silly as it sounded to me with my knowledge. I can accept that. Then we tried to make sense of the idea of CEV as a practical and useful thing. I fear if I want a CEV process applicable by humans I’m going to have to invent it. Oh well.)
I haven’t been saying I believed it was wrong to censor (although I do think that it’s a bad idea in general). I have been saying I believe it was stupid and counterproductive to censor, and that this is not only clearly evident from the results, but should have been trivially predictable (certainly to anyone who’d been on the Internet for a few years) before the action was taken. And if the LW-homebrewed, lacking in outside review, Timeless Decision Theory was used to reach this bad decision, then TDT was disastrously inadequate (not just slightly inadequate) for application to a non-hypothetical situation and it lessens the expectation that TDT will be adequate for future non-hypothetical situations. And that this should also be obvious.
Yes, the attempt to censor was botched and I regret the botchery. In retrospect I should have not commented or explained anything, just PM’d Roko and asked him to take down the post without explaining himself.
This is actually quite comforting to know. Thank you.
(I still wonder WHAT ON EARTH WERE YOU THINKING at the time, but you’ll answer as and when you think it’s a good idea to, and that’s fine.)
(I was down the pub with ciphergoth just now and this topic came up … I said the Very Bad Idea sounded silly as an idea, he said it wasn’t as silly as it sounded to me with my knowledge. I can accept that. Then we tried to make sense of the idea of CEV as a practical and useful thing. I fear if I want a CEV process applicable by humans I’m going to have to invent it. Oh well.)
And I would have taken it down. My bad for not asking first most importantly.