To be clear, I did my best to present various past-Nate’s viewpoints from that past-Nate’s perspective. I do not necessarily endorse my old beliefs, and I readily admit that 2005!Nate and other Nates nearby were far too arrogant. I aim to explain where I came from, not to justify it.
My arrogance has been tempered in recent years (though I retain some for the Nothing Is Beyond My Grasp compartment). That said, self evaluation can be difficult, and perhaps I have not been tempered enough. If you notice any specific instances where it seems my model of my abilities/importance is out of sync with reality, I’d very much appreciate your input.
Though arrogance puts some people off, keep in mind some people are very excited by it. I love your arrogance, I haven’t seen that flavour of arrogance in a while, and it was the trait yudkowky had back in 2003-2005 that got me interested in him.
We’ve had some similar growing up types of experiences, and we interacted with the same cluster of people and ideas the last few years. I’d be curious to skype with you over some differences in actions taken and actions endorsed after our different hitories. Mostly I’d like to pick up particular examples of smart people with the saving the world mindset, see what they concluded and what they ended up doing, and checking wheter we would have done the same or different, and in which ways. My skype is diegocaleiro feel free to add it if you think this could be valuable.
This post seems uncomfortably arrogant to me.
To be clear, I did my best to present various past-Nate’s viewpoints from that past-Nate’s perspective. I do not necessarily endorse my old beliefs, and I readily admit that 2005!Nate and other Nates nearby were far too arrogant. I aim to explain where I came from, not to justify it.
My arrogance has been tempered in recent years (though I retain some for the Nothing Is Beyond My Grasp compartment). That said, self evaluation can be difficult, and perhaps I have not been tempered enough. If you notice any specific instances where it seems my model of my abilities/importance is out of sync with reality, I’d very much appreciate your input.
Though arrogance puts some people off, keep in mind some people are very excited by it. I love your arrogance, I haven’t seen that flavour of arrogance in a while, and it was the trait yudkowky had back in 2003-2005 that got me interested in him.
We’ve had some similar growing up types of experiences, and we interacted with the same cluster of people and ideas the last few years. I’d be curious to skype with you over some differences in actions taken and actions endorsed after our different hitories. Mostly I’d like to pick up particular examples of smart people with the saving the world mindset, see what they concluded and what they ended up doing, and checking wheter we would have done the same or different, and in which ways. My skype is diegocaleiro feel free to add it if you think this could be valuable.
While either one on its own is suboptimal, arrogance combined with constant self-doubt seems like a pretty good combination to me.