I am of course heavily biased. I would have counted myself among the 8% of people who were unwilling to change their minds
Excuse me but what the fuck‽ Maybe kudos for being honest about your disposition.
But this is LessWrong! We consider this kind of stance to be deeply flawed and corrosive to figuring out what facts constitute the world. The rest of the post is okay, but I hope that people can see that this is a warning sign.
Thanks for pointing this out—I may have been sloppy in my writing. To be more precise, I did not expect that I would change my mind, given my prior knowledge of the stances of the four candidates, and would have given this expectation a high confidence. For this reason, I would have voted with “no”. Had LeCun or Mitchell presented an astonishing, verifiable insight previously unknown to me, I may well have changed my mind.
Excuse me but what the fuck‽ Maybe kudos for being honest about your disposition.
But this is LessWrong! We consider this kind of stance to be deeply flawed and corrosive to figuring out what facts constitute the world. The rest of the post is okay, but I hope that people can see that this is a warning sign.
Thanks for pointing this out—I may have been sloppy in my writing. To be more precise, I did not expect that I would change my mind, given my prior knowledge of the stances of the four candidates, and would have given this expectation a high confidence. For this reason, I would have voted with “no”. Had LeCun or Mitchell presented an astonishing, verifiable insight previously unknown to me, I may well have changed my mind.
Ah, okay. That makes much more sense.