Yeah, “the” was much too strong and that is definitely not a thing I think. I don’t appreciate the indirect accusation that I’m trying to get people to defer to my authority by inducing high time preference in them.
For what it’s worth, I read Benquo as saying not “Qiaochu is trying to do this” but something more like “People who see rationalism as a cult are likely to think the cult leaders are trying to do this”. Though I can see arguments for reading it the other way.
I anticipated a third thing, which is that “at least some people who are talking about short timelines are at least somewhat unconsciously motivated to do so for this reason, Qiaochu is embedded in the social web that may be playing a role in shaping his intuitions.”
Yeah, “the” was much too strong and that is definitely not a thing I think. I don’t appreciate the indirect accusation that I’m trying to get people to defer to my authority by inducing high time preference in them.
For what it’s worth, I read Benquo as saying not “Qiaochu is trying to do this” but something more like “People who see rationalism as a cult are likely to think the cult leaders are trying to do this”. Though I can see arguments for reading it the other way.
I anticipated a third thing, which is that “at least some people who are talking about short timelines are at least somewhat unconsciously motivated to do so for this reason, Qiaochu is embedded in the social web that may be playing a role in shaping his intuitions.”
This is what I meant.