^ Aggressive strawman which ignores the main point of my comment. I didn’t say “earth-shaking” or “crystallizing everything wrong about Eliezer” or that the situation merited “shock and awe.”
I, uh, didn’t say you “say” either of those: I was sarcastically describing your comment about an anecdote that scarcely even seemed to illustrate what it was supposed to, much less was so important as to be worth recounting years later as a high profile story (surely you can come up with something better than that after all this time?), and did not put my description in quotes meant to imply literal quotation, like you just did right there. If we’re going to talk about strawmen...
someone would reply “hey, TurnTrout didn’t actually say that stuff.”
No one would say that or correct me for falsifying quotes, because I didn’t say you said that stuff. They might (and some do) disagree with my sarcastic description, but they certainly weren’t going to say ‘gwern, TurnTrout never actually used the phrase “shocked and awed” or the word “crystallizing”, how could you just make stuff up like that???’ …Because I didn’t. So it seems unfair to judge LW and talk about how you are “not going to miss this site”. (See what I did there? I am quoting you, which is why the text is in quotation marks, and if you didn’t write that in the comment I am responding to, someone is probably going to ask where the quote is from. But they won’t, because you did write that quote).
You know, local validity and all that. I’m really not going to miss this site.
In jumping to accusations of making up quotes and attacking an entire site for not immediately criticizing me in the way you are certain I should be criticized and saying that these failures illustrate why you are quitting it, might one say that you are being… overconfident?
Additionally, the anecdote was unrelated to the other section of my comment, so I didn’t “feel” it was a “capstone.”
Quite aside from it being in the same comment and so you felt it was related, it was obviously related to your first half about overconfidence in providing an anecdote of what you felt was overconfidence, and was rhetorically positioned at the end as the concrete Eliezer conclusion/illustration of the first half about abstract MIRI overconfidence. And you agree that that is what you are doing in your own description, that he “isn’t deploying careful reasoning” in the large things as well as the small, and you are presenting it as a small self-contained story illustrating that general overconfidence:
However, my actual experience is that Eliezer goes around doing things like e.g. impatiently interrupting people and being instantly wrong about it (importantly, in the realm of AI, as was the original context). This makes me think that Eliezer isn’t deploying careful reasoning to begin with.
I, uh, didn’t say you “say” either of those: I was sarcastically describing your comment about an anecdote that scarcely even seemed to illustrate what it was supposed to, much less was so important as to be worth recounting years later as a high profile story (surely you can come up with something better than that after all this time?), and did not put my description in quotes meant to imply literal quotation, like you just did right there. If we’re going to talk about strawmen...
No one would say that or correct me for falsifying quotes, because I didn’t say you said that stuff. They might (and some do) disagree with my sarcastic description, but they certainly weren’t going to say ‘gwern, TurnTrout never actually used the phrase “shocked and awed” or the word “crystallizing”, how could you just make stuff up like that???’ …Because I didn’t. So it seems unfair to judge LW and talk about how you are “not going to miss this site”. (See what I did there? I am quoting you, which is why the text is in quotation marks, and if you didn’t write that in the comment I am responding to, someone is probably going to ask where the quote is from. But they won’t, because you did write that quote).
In jumping to accusations of making up quotes and attacking an entire site for not immediately criticizing me in the way you are certain I should be criticized and saying that these failures illustrate why you are quitting it, might one say that you are being… overconfident?
Quite aside from it being in the same comment and so you felt it was related, it was obviously related to your first half about overconfidence in providing an anecdote of what you felt was overconfidence, and was rhetorically positioned at the end as the concrete Eliezer conclusion/illustration of the first half about abstract MIRI overconfidence. And you agree that that is what you are doing in your own description, that he “isn’t deploying careful reasoning” in the large things as well as the small, and you are presenting it as a small self-contained story illustrating that general overconfidence: