I’m not interested in making such a request for expanding on it, thanks for the offer. (I’m not asking you not to, to be clear.)
To respond to your point, you may be aware that there’s a large class of Singerian EAs that are pathologically self-guilting and taking-personal-responsibility-for-the-bad-things-in-the-world, and it was kind to some of them to point out what was believed to be a true argument for why that was not the case here. I don’t think it is primarily explained by self-serving motivation; and as evidence you can see from the comments that Eliezer was perfectly open to evidence he was mistaken (via encouraging Habryka to post their chat publicly where Habryka gave counterevidence), so I think it’s unfair to read poor intent into this, as opposed to genuine empathy/sympathy for people who are renowned for beating themselves up about things in the world that they are barely responsible for and have relatively little agency over.
it was kind to some of them to point out what was believed to be a true argument for why that was not the case here
I don’t see evidence in the post comments that it was received that way, though it’s possible those who read it as a true, helpful and kind didn’t respond, or did elsewhere.
Eliezer was perfectly open to evidence he was mistaken
I don’t think he’s a schemer or engaging in some kind of systematic project to silence dissent.
I’m not interested in making such a request for expanding on it, thanks for the offer. (I’m not asking you not to, to be clear.)
To respond to your point, you may be aware that there’s a large class of Singerian EAs that are pathologically self-guilting and taking-personal-responsibility-for-the-bad-things-in-the-world, and it was kind to some of them to point out what was believed to be a true argument for why that was not the case here. I don’t think it is primarily explained by self-serving motivation; and as evidence you can see from the comments that Eliezer was perfectly open to evidence he was mistaken (via encouraging Habryka to post their chat publicly where Habryka gave counterevidence), so I think it’s unfair to read poor intent into this, as opposed to genuine empathy/sympathy for people who are renowned for beating themselves up about things in the world that they are barely responsible for and have relatively little agency over.
I don’t see evidence in the post comments that it was received that way, though it’s possible those who read it as a true, helpful and kind didn’t respond, or did elsewhere.
I don’t think he’s a schemer or engaging in some kind of systematic project to silence dissent.