Huh. I’ll retract it for now, but I inferred it from the 6th footnote here, taking the fact that it was put up in 1993 by an Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky (when Eliezer was “like 13”) on that very same message board… are you sure that comment wasn’t just an indirect way of saying “Eliezer_1993 did it and Eliezer_2011 bears little resemblance to Eliezer_1993″? The comment you’ve linked to doesn’t seem to bear out what you seem to be asserting (that some other Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsy, genetically distinct from the one we all know and love, had written on that very same message board a post that looks like it was written by a 13⁄14 year old sci fi fan in 1993). Even if your assertion is true, there still remains the task of finding the writings that the 6th footnote was referring to!
are you sure that comment wasn’t just an indirect way of saying “Eliezer1993 did it and Eliezer2011 bears little resemblance to Eliezer_1993”
You’re right—that is what it was. I got wooshed. I’m surprised that you retracted when you have so much evidence to back it up (the date, the middle name, and even a mention in something else written by Eliezer). Does the site let you unretract?
That was written by another person with the same name.
Edit: I was mistaken, it is the same person. I read his attempt to distance himself from his youthful indiscretions overly literally.
Huh. I’ll retract it for now, but I inferred it from the 6th footnote here, taking the fact that it was put up in 1993 by an Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky (when Eliezer was “like 13”) on that very same message board… are you sure that comment wasn’t just an indirect way of saying “Eliezer_1993 did it and Eliezer_2011 bears little resemblance to Eliezer_1993″? The comment you’ve linked to doesn’t seem to bear out what you seem to be asserting (that some other Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsy, genetically distinct from the one we all know and love, had written on that very same message board a post that looks like it was written by a 13⁄14 year old sci fi fan in 1993). Even if your assertion is true, there still remains the task of finding the writings that the 6th footnote was referring to!
You’re right—that is what it was. I got wooshed. I’m surprised that you retracted when you have so much evidence to back it up (the date, the middle name, and even a mention in something else written by Eliezer). Does the site let you unretract?
Unfortunately not. Maybe that would be a good feature to add.