Yeah, that’s unsurprising. People (or most people, including me a lot of the time) are quite sensitive about how their arguments and opinions are perceived by others. “Let’s go about testing this” doesn’t sound, to most people, like “wow, I’m being validated.”
Having never met the man, my mental image is basically HJPEV. I imagine him swapping Hufflepuff into the driver’s seat, and directing most of his actual concentration to telling Ravenclaw to cram it.
I watched the video up until the toy problem with blue circles and red diamonds, then paused it, got out a piece of paper, and worked through the problem using Bayes’ theorem. So proud of myself right now...
Yeah, that’s unsurprising. People (or most people, including me a lot of the time) are quite sensitive about how their arguments and opinions are perceived by others. “Let’s go about testing this” doesn’t sound, to most people, like “wow, I’m being validated.”
I also have trouble imagining EY saying it with a straight face and in a non-threatening way.
Having never met the man, my mental image is basically HJPEV. I imagine him swapping Hufflepuff into the driver’s seat, and directing most of his actual concentration to telling Ravenclaw to cram it.
Here, have a better mental image.
But for Sanity’s sake don’t look at the comments. (Apparently Eliezer joined the ‘illluminaty’ when we weren’t looking.)
I watched the video up until the toy problem with blue circles and red diamonds, then paused it, got out a piece of paper, and worked through the problem using Bayes’ theorem. So proud of myself right now...