This is fascinating- I’ve been a fan of Joseph’s youtube channel for years, but I’ve never seen him comment on lesswrong. A while ago in that setting, we got into a back and forth about eigenvalues of anti-linear operators, which was object level fascinating, but also ended up requiring both Joseph and me to notice that we were wrong, which we did with little difficulty. What I’m trying to say is that Joseph is actually smart and open minded on technical questions, but is also definitely not respecting community norms here. If we can successfully not scare him off while discouraging quite this level of vitriol, there is definitely potential for him to contribute.
This is fascinating- I’ve been a fan of Joseph’s youtube channel for years, but I’ve never seen him comment on lesswrong. A while ago in that setting, we got into a back and forth about eigenvalues of anti-linear operators, which was object level fascinating, but also ended up requiring both Joseph and me to notice that we were wrong, which we did with little difficulty. What I’m trying to say is that Joseph is actually smart and open minded on technical questions, but is also definitely not respecting community norms here. If we can successfully not scare him off while discouraging quite this level of vitriol, there is definitely potential for him to contribute.
Thanks for the context.