FWIW, I did not find this weirdly uncharitable, only mildly uncharitable. I have extremely wide error bars on what you have and have not read, and “Eliezer has not read any of the things on that list” was within those error bars. It is really quite difficult to guess your epistemic state w.r.t. specific work when you haven’t been writing about it for a while.
(Though I guess you might have been writing about it on Twitter? I have no idea, I generally do not use Twitter myself, so I might have just completely missed anything there.)
The “weirdly uncharitable” part is saying that it “seemed like” I hadn’t read it vs. asking. Uncertainty is one thing, leaping to the wrong guess another.
Yeah, even I wasn’t sure you’d read those three things, Eliezer, though I knew you’d at least glanced over ‘Takeoff Speeds’ and ‘Biological Anchors’ enough to form opinions when they came out. :)
FWIW, I did not find this weirdly uncharitable, only mildly uncharitable. I have extremely wide error bars on what you have and have not read, and “Eliezer has not read any of the things on that list” was within those error bars. It is really quite difficult to guess your epistemic state w.r.t. specific work when you haven’t been writing about it for a while.
(Though I guess you might have been writing about it on Twitter? I have no idea, I generally do not use Twitter myself, so I might have just completely missed anything there.)
The “weirdly uncharitable” part is saying that it “seemed like” I hadn’t read it vs. asking. Uncertainty is one thing, leaping to the wrong guess another.
Yeah, even I wasn’t sure you’d read those three things, Eliezer, though I knew you’d at least glanced over ‘Takeoff Speeds’ and ‘Biological Anchors’ enough to form opinions when they came out. :)
(… Admittedly, you read fast enough that my ‘skimming’ is your ‘reading’. 😶)