I think Eli as being the main representative of SI, should be more careful of how he does things, and resist his natural instinct to declare people stupid (-> Especially ← if he’s basically right)
Case in point:
http://www.sl4.org/archive/0608/15895.html
That could have been handled more politically and with more face-saving for the victim. Now you have this guy and at least one “friend” with loads of free time going around putting down anything associated with Eliezer or SI on the Internet. For 5 minutes of extra thinking and not typing this could have been largely avoided. Eli has to realize that he’s in a good position to needlessly hurt his (and our) own causes.
Another case in point was handling the Roko affair. There is doing the right thing, but you can do it without being an asshole (also IMO the “ownership” of LW policies is still an unresolved issue, but at least it’s mostly “between friends”). If something like this needs to be done Eli needs to pass the keyboard to cooler heads.
Certainly anyone building a Serious & Official image for themselves should avoid mentioning any posteriors not of the probability kind in their public things.
I think Eli as being the main representative of SI, should be more careful of how he does things, and resist his natural instinct to declare people stupid (-> Especially ← if he’s basically right)
Case in point: http://www.sl4.org/archive/0608/15895.html That could have been handled more politically and with more face-saving for the victim. Now you have this guy and at least one “friend” with loads of free time going around putting down anything associated with Eliezer or SI on the Internet. For 5 minutes of extra thinking and not typing this could have been largely avoided. Eli has to realize that he’s in a good position to needlessly hurt his (and our) own causes.
Another case in point was handling the Roko affair. There is doing the right thing, but you can do it without being an asshole (also IMO the “ownership” of LW policies is still an unresolved issue, but at least it’s mostly “between friends”). If something like this needs to be done Eli needs to pass the keyboard to cooler heads.
Note: happened five years ago
Certainly anyone building a Serious & Official image for themselves should avoid mentioning any posteriors not of the probability kind in their public things.
Already noted, and I’m guessing the situation improved. But it’s still a symptom of a harmful personality trait.