I’m pretty sure I have never mentioned Eliezer in the Value Learning sequence. I linked to his writings because they’re the best explanation of the perspective I’m arguing against. (Note that this is different from claiming that Eliezer believes that perspective.) This post and comment thread attributed the argument and belief to Eliezer, not me. I responded because it was specifically about what I was arguing against in my post, and I didn’t say “I am clarifying the particular argument I am arguing against and am unsure what Eliezer’s actual position is” because a) I did think that it was Eliezer’s actual position, b) this is a ridiculous amount of boilerplate and c) I try not to spend too much time on comments.
I’m not feeling particularly open to feedback currently, because honestly I think I take far more care about this sort of issue than the typical researcher, but if you want to list a specific thing I could have done differently, I might try to consider how to do that sort of thing in the future.
I’m pretty sure I have never mentioned Eliezer in the Value Learning sequence. I linked to his writings because they’re the best explanation of the perspective I’m arguing against. (Note that this is different from claiming that Eliezer believes that perspective.) This post and comment thread attributed the argument and belief to Eliezer, not me. I responded because it was specifically about what I was arguing against in my post, and I didn’t say “I am clarifying the particular argument I am arguing against and am unsure what Eliezer’s actual position is” because a) I did think that it was Eliezer’s actual position, b) this is a ridiculous amount of boilerplate and c) I try not to spend too much time on comments.
I’m not feeling particularly open to feedback currently, because honestly I think I take far more care about this sort of issue than the typical researcher, but if you want to list a specific thing I could have done differently, I might try to consider how to do that sort of thing in the future.