...how are we supposed to tell people about this rule?
“We don’t put quotes from Eliezer in the Rationality Quotes thread” seems to work. Quoting the expression of an authority is a way to lend persuasiveness to your rule assertion but it is not intrinsic to the process of rule explaining.
I can tell people “Don’t drive through intersections when the lights are red” and I’m telling someone about the rule without quoting anything.
I think that the purpose of the current instruction is to refrain from quoting ourselves and each other. So I’d see it as a trivial extension to understand that Eliezer and other well-known members of the community should not be used for a source for quotes.
Thou shalt not quote Yudkowsky.
...how are we supposed to tell people about this rule?
Edit: Aw, I thought it was funny.
Ever played Mao)?
Saying the name of the game ::gives card::
One of my fondest childhood memories.
“We don’t put quotes from Eliezer in the Rationality Quotes thread” seems to work. Quoting the expression of an authority is a way to lend persuasiveness to your rule assertion but it is not intrinsic to the process of rule explaining.
I can tell people “Don’t drive through intersections when the lights are red” and I’m telling someone about the rule without quoting anything.
Understood.
Is this a trivial extension of
to include SI/MIRI stuff or a new commandment?
I think that the purpose of the current instruction is to refrain from quoting ourselves and each other. So I’d see it as a trivial extension to understand that Eliezer and other well-known members of the community should not be used for a source for quotes.
Yep, that trivial extension one.