I basically agree that it’s a much worse post than average for Eliezer. Also agree that it’s not particularly accessible, though I actually found it quite insightful to read after I’ve taken a class on international monetary policy, which I had taken between my first reading of this post, and now my second reading of this post.
I think a list of references to read before reading this dialogue, or a set of motivating sources that caused Eliezer to write this dialogue, would make it a lot better in my opinion. E.g. when Scott Alexander usually tries to respond to someone’s view, he extracts a bunch of key quotes from a bunch of articles he sees as representative, and then responds to it. I think something like this would aid this post significantly.
Edit: I upvoted the post because I found it relevant to a bunch of stuff I’ve been thinking about lately, but would have not upvoted this post had it been posted here when Eliezer first wrote it (since I was lacking a bunch of necessary context then)
I basically agree that it’s a much worse post than average for Eliezer. Also agree that it’s not particularly accessible, though I actually found it quite insightful to read after I’ve taken a class on international monetary policy, which I had taken between my first reading of this post, and now my second reading of this post.
I think a list of references to read before reading this dialogue, or a set of motivating sources that caused Eliezer to write this dialogue, would make it a lot better in my opinion. E.g. when Scott Alexander usually tries to respond to someone’s view, he extracts a bunch of key quotes from a bunch of articles he sees as representative, and then responds to it. I think something like this would aid this post significantly.
Edit: I upvoted the post because I found it relevant to a bunch of stuff I’ve been thinking about lately, but would have not upvoted this post had it been posted here when Eliezer first wrote it (since I was lacking a bunch of necessary context then)