When it comes to discussions on LessWrong the core issue is that discussions have opportunity costs. Discussions end when any participant doesn’t believe that investing further resources intot he conversation is valuable for them.
Especially given your history of making demands on people investigating significant amount of time in discussing with you, this seems like just another attempt at trying to create obligations for people who don’t think engaging with you is valuable to spend more energy to engage with you.
I think he seems to struggle with unwritten knowledge/rules. (likely on the spectrum?)
So I think his methodology is a way for him to keep track of things in a way that makes sense to him.
I am convinced he is doing it in good faith and genuinely wants to learn and discuss these things in a very serious manner. I think this is what Wittgenstein had in mind when he said if a Lion could speak we could not understand him.
I think curi has an interesting brain. He seems extremely quick with one side of his brain and can read vasts amounts of information very quickly as long as it is all “rational.” When it comes to the more social aspect of things, he seems confused. This does not mean he is wrong. He may have come up with something here but because he has built this infrastructure with his brain in mind. He might have a hard time building a bridge with others.
What may appear straightforward to most people, is likely overwhelming for him. So he is building a system to make it not overwhelming. It may just work too! Ofc the downside is that what appears straight forward to him probably flies past others as well. There appears to be a ton of background knowledge that is doing all the heavy lifting. He seems to be burrowing from computation, physics, and philosophy. Reading through his blog has been fascinating and frustrating.
tldr: I think he is attempting to reason in good faith, despite past misbehaviors with sock puppets etc… but has trouble communicating with others in a fruitful manner. I have no solutions, just an observations.
When it comes to discussions on LessWrong the core issue is that discussions have opportunity costs. Discussions end when any participant doesn’t believe that investing further resources intot he conversation is valuable for them.
Especially given your history of making demands on people investigating significant amount of time in discussing with you, this seems like just another attempt at trying to create obligations for people who don’t think engaging with you is valuable to spend more energy to engage with you.
I think he seems to struggle with unwritten knowledge/rules. (likely on the spectrum?)
So I think his methodology is a way for him to keep track of things in a way that makes sense to him.
I am convinced he is doing it in good faith and genuinely wants to learn and discuss these things in a very serious manner. I think this is what Wittgenstein had in mind when he said if a Lion could speak we could not understand him.
I think curi has an interesting brain. He seems extremely quick with one side of his brain and can read vasts amounts of information very quickly as long as it is all “rational.” When it comes to the more social aspect of things, he seems confused. This does not mean he is wrong. He may have come up with something here but because he has built this infrastructure with his brain in mind. He might have a hard time building a bridge with others.
What may appear straightforward to most people, is likely overwhelming for him. So he is building a system to make it not overwhelming. It may just work too! Ofc the downside is that what appears straight forward to him probably flies past others as well. There appears to be a ton of background knowledge that is doing all the heavy lifting. He seems to be burrowing from computation, physics, and philosophy. Reading through his blog has been fascinating and frustrating.
tldr: I think he is attempting to reason in good faith, despite past misbehaviors with sock puppets etc… but has trouble communicating with others in a fruitful manner. I have no solutions, just an observations.
What sock puppets?
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LYGLPwwBtNH28qPud/open-letter-to-miri-tons-of-interesting-discussion?commentId=Cx8DBK6RqqqnMwAYa
The duplicates you got banned for here no? It seems self evident, but I don’t hold anything against you for that.
fallibledupicates or w/e.
I have never sock puppeted at LW and I have never been banned at the LW website. You’re just wrong and smearing me.
Please leave me alone.
Ok.