As a side issue, I’m dismayed upon finding that ideas I had thought original to Yudkowsky were secondhand.
Having to have original ideas is a very high standard. I doubt a single one of my posts contains a truly original idea, and I don’t try–I try to figure out which ideas are useful to me, and then present why, in a format that I hope will be useful to others. Eliezer creates a lot of new catchy terms for pre-existing ideas, like “affective death spiral” for “halo effect.” I like that.
His posts are also quite short, often witty, and generally presented in an easier-to-digest format than the journal articles I might otherwise have to read to encounter the not-new ideas. You apparently don’t find his writing easy to digest or amusing in the same way I do.
Affective death spiral is not the same thing as the Halo effect, though the halo effect (/ horns effect) might be part of the mechanism of affective death spiral.
Agreed… I think the Halo effect is a sub-component of an affective death spiral, and “affective death spiral” is a term unique to LW [correct me if I’m wrong!], while ‘Halo effect’ isn’t.
Having to have original ideas is a very high standard. I doubt a single one of my posts contains a truly original idea, and I don’t try–I try to figure out which ideas are useful to me, and then present why, in a format that I hope will be useful to others. Eliezer creates a lot of new catchy terms for pre-existing ideas, like “affective death spiral” for “halo effect.” I like that.
His posts are also quite short, often witty, and generally presented in an easier-to-digest format than the journal articles I might otherwise have to read to encounter the not-new ideas. You apparently don’t find his writing easy to digest or amusing in the same way I do.
Affective death spiral is not the same thing as the Halo effect, though the halo effect (/ horns effect) might be part of the mechanism of affective death spiral.
Agreed… I think the Halo effect is a sub-component of an affective death spiral, and “affective death spiral” is a term unique to LW [correct me if I’m wrong!], while ‘Halo effect’ isn’t.