It’s squarely relevant to the post, but it is mostly irrelevant to Eliezer’s comment specifically, and I think the actual drives underlying the decision to make it a reply to Eliezer are probably not in good faith, like, you have to at least entertain the hypothesis that they pretty much realized it wasn’t relevant and they just wanted eliezer’s attention or they wanted the prominence of being a reply to his comment. Personally I hope they receive eliezer’s attention, but piggybacking messes up the reply structure and makes it harder to navigate discussions, to make sense of the pragmatics or find what you’re looking for, which is pretty harmful. I don’t think we should have a lot of patience for that.
(Eliezer/that paragraph he was quoting was about the actions of large states, or of a large international alliance. The reply is pretty much entirely about why it’s impractical to hide your activities from your host state, which is all inapplicable to scenarios where you are/have a state.)
It seems to me that it is squarely on-topic in this thread, and I do not understand MakoYass’s reaction.
(fwiw I found it a bit weird as a reply to Eliezer-in-particular, but found it a reasonable comment in general)
It’s squarely relevant to the post, but it is mostly irrelevant to Eliezer’s comment specifically, and I think the actual drives underlying the decision to make it a reply to Eliezer are probably not in good faith, like, you have to at least entertain the hypothesis that they pretty much realized it wasn’t relevant and they just wanted eliezer’s attention or they wanted the prominence of being a reply to his comment.
Personally I hope they receive eliezer’s attention, but piggybacking messes up the reply structure and makes it harder to navigate discussions, to make sense of the pragmatics or find what you’re looking for, which is pretty harmful. I don’t think we should have a lot of patience for that.
(Eliezer/that paragraph he was quoting was about the actions of large states, or of a large international alliance. The reply is pretty much entirely about why it’s impractical to hide your activities from your host state, which is all inapplicable to scenarios where you are/have a state.)