Roko, even though presumably know you better than most Less Wrong users since I’ve met you in real life, I’m finding it very difficult to estimate your rationalist skills.
When I take an online personality test, I try to think of examples from my life that demonstrate that my personality is one way or another. It’s often difficult to come up with examples, and sometimes I will come up with examples that contradict one another.
Given that it’s difficult for me to come up with examples demonstrating how I am, and that I live with myself every waking hour, imagine how hard it is for me to do the same thing for you. I gave you a downvote on probability theory for having trouble explaining causality to me, and an upvote on entangling yourself with the evidence because your website says your morality changed “almost overnight” after reading The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Truth about Morality, but what am I supposed to do for the others? Imagine something that would demonstrate presence or lack of a characteristic and then try and figure out if you would do it?
I guess that might work. An interesting variation on this exercise would be for you to supply this action that demonstrates your strength or weakness in advance. This would make things easier on the people being surveyed and might help you interpret your results better.
Roko, even though presumably know you better than most Less Wrong users since I’ve met you in real life, I’m finding it very difficult to estimate your rationalist skills.
When I take an online personality test, I try to think of examples from my life that demonstrate that my personality is one way or another. It’s often difficult to come up with examples, and sometimes I will come up with examples that contradict one another.
Given that it’s difficult for me to come up with examples demonstrating how I am, and that I live with myself every waking hour, imagine how hard it is for me to do the same thing for you. I gave you a downvote on probability theory for having trouble explaining causality to me, and an upvote on entangling yourself with the evidence because your website says your morality changed “almost overnight” after reading The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Truth about Morality, but what am I supposed to do for the others? Imagine something that would demonstrate presence or lack of a characteristic and then try and figure out if you would do it?
I guess that might work. An interesting variation on this exercise would be for you to supply this action that demonstrates your strength or weakness in advance. This would make things easier on the people being surveyed and might help you interpret your results better.
Feedback appreciated. It is an experiment—we’ll see what comes of it in the end!