I know you’re saying that ironically, but I’ll take the bait and state clearly that there’s nothing unthinkable or particularly astonishing about Eliezer failing at rational thinking in some instances. In my opinion, both the insistence on MWI and the heavily kool-aidish emphasis on evo-psych are examples of such failures in the sequences.
In my opinion, both the insistence on MWI and the heavily kool-aidish emphasis on evo-psych are examples of such failures in the sequences.
This gives me a (trivial) update in the direction of MWI! (ie. A higher correlation between critics of Eliezer’s rather uncontroversial evo-psych position with critics of his MW position makes the MW position slightly more plausible.)
Is that not a species of the “Hitler was a vegetarian” argument?
No. If it was then the species “Hitler was a vegetarian” would be would be valid—which would thereby make the Hitler reference a mere Godwin violation.
I know you’re saying that ironically, but I’ll take the bait and state clearly that there’s nothing unthinkable or particularly astonishing about Eliezer failing at rational thinking in some instances. In my opinion, both the insistence on MWI and the heavily kool-aidish emphasis on evo-psych are examples of such failures in the sequences.
This gives me a (trivial) update in the direction of MWI! (ie. A higher correlation between critics of Eliezer’s rather uncontroversial evo-psych position with critics of his MW position makes the MW position slightly more plausible.)
Is that not a species of the “Hitler was a vegetarian” argument?
No. If it was then the species “Hitler was a vegetarian” would be would be valid—which would thereby make the Hitler reference a mere Godwin violation.