I just wrote a comment defending sneering recently on LessWrong, and I think this is a good time to put my beliefs into action.
You may feel smart, but your comment does not convey any of that intelligence, if you have it. You may be very confident in your opinions, but you are doing nothing to confer that confidence to anyone else. If you want me to believe what you believe, you’ll have to be convincing. A digital temper tantrum won’t do it.
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.
You are siding with evil because you yourself are evil. My anger against people like you is righteous. If you are not convinced, it is simply because you have been completely consumed by your own evil. Universities promote violence. I know. I was a professor. But you just want me to be violently attacked and injured or killed.
UNIVERSITIES MUST BE REJECTED FOR PROMOTING VIOLENCE!
P.S. Only commenting and responding to my non-technical posts where I call out universities for their problem just proves my point. Face it. You are stupid, and universities only pretended to educate you.
I am striking this out because it is better if I instead made only mathematics posts on this site relevant to AI safety.
I just wrote a comment defending sneering recently on LessWrong, and I think this is a good time to put my beliefs into action.
You may feel smart, but your comment does not convey any of that intelligence, if you have it. You may be very confident in your opinions, but you are doing nothing to confer that confidence to anyone else. If you want me to believe what you believe, you’ll have to be convincing. A digital temper tantrum won’t do it.
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.
You are siding with evil because you yourself are evil. My anger against people like you is righteous. If you are not convinced, it is simply because you have been completely consumed by your own evil. Universities promote violence. I know. I was a professor. But you just want me to be violently attacked and injured or killed.UNIVERSITIES MUST BE REJECTED FOR PROMOTING VIOLENCE!P.S. Only commenting and responding to my non-technical posts where I call out universities for their problem just proves my point. Face it. You are stupid, and universities only pretended to educate you.I am striking this out because it is better if I instead made only mathematics posts on this site relevant to AI safety.