since you’re lucky enough to be part of a physical community of “similar” people
Was Eliezer “lucky” to have cofounded the Singularity Institute and Overcoming Bias?
The causes of his being in such a happy situation (is that better?) were clearly not the point here, and, quite frankly, I think you knew that.
But if you insist on an answer to this irrelevant rhetorical question, the answer is yes. Eliezer_2012 is indeed quite fortunate to have been preceded by all those previous Eliezers who did those things.
EY owns LessWrong
Then, like I implied, he should just admit to making a decision on the basis of his own personal preference (if indeed that’s what’s going on), instead of constructing a rationalization about the opinions of offline folks being somehow more important or “appropriately” filtered.
Eliezer_2012 is indeed quite fortunate to have been preceded by all those previous Eliezers who did those things.
Eliezer only got to be Eliezer_2012 by doing all those things. Now, maybe Eliezer_201209120 did wake up this morning, as every morning, and think, “how extraordinarily, astoundingly lucky I am to be me!”, and there is some point to that thought—but not one that is relevant to this conversation.
Then, like I implied, he should just admit to making a decision on the basis of his own personal preference (if indeed that’s what’s going on), instead of constructing a rationalization about the opinions of offline folks being somehow more important or “appropriately” filtered.
It is tautologically his preference. I see no reason to think he is being dishonest in his stated reasons for that preference.
I’m afraid the above comment does not contribute any additional information to this discussion, and so I have downvoted it accordingly. Any substantive reply would consist of the repetition of points already made.
The causes of his being in such a happy situation (is that better?) were clearly not the point here, and, quite frankly, I think you knew that.
But if you insist on an answer to this irrelevant rhetorical question, the answer is yes. Eliezer_2012 is indeed quite fortunate to have been preceded by all those previous Eliezers who did those things.
Then, like I implied, he should just admit to making a decision on the basis of his own personal preference (if indeed that’s what’s going on), instead of constructing a rationalization about the opinions of offline folks being somehow more important or “appropriately” filtered.
I would replace preference with hypothesis of what constitutes the optimal rationality-refining community.
They are sensibly the same, but I find the latter to be a more useful reduction that is more open to being refined in turn.
Eliezer only got to be Eliezer_2012 by doing all those things. Now, maybe Eliezer_201209120 did wake up this morning, as every morning, and think, “how extraordinarily, astoundingly lucky I am to be me!”, and there is some point to that thought—but not one that is relevant to this conversation.
It is tautologically his preference. I see no reason to think he is being dishonest in his stated reasons for that preference.
I’m afraid the above comment does not contribute any additional information to this discussion, and so I have downvoted it accordingly. Any substantive reply would consist of the repetition of points already made.
You’re welcome.