Inadequate Equilibria was Eliezer trying to explain the perspective he’d previously tagged “civilizational inadequacy” and before that “people are crazy, the world is mad”. One of the main ways he’d previously been misunderstood when he used those phrases was that people took them as “generic cynicism” or “the kind of cynicism I’m used to”, so my model of Eliezer considered it particularly important to differentiate those two things now that he was finally properly explaining the view.
Inadequate Equilibria was Eliezer trying to explain the perspective he’d previously tagged “civilizational inadequacy” and before that “people are crazy, the world is mad”. One of the main ways he’d previously been misunderstood when he used those phrases was that people took them as “generic cynicism” or “the kind of cynicism I’m used to”, so my model of Eliezer considered it particularly important to differentiate those two things now that he was finally properly explaining the view.