Thank you. Since I learned practically everything I know about rationality either from you or from books you recommended, I’m very happy to earn your approval...but also a little amused, since I consciously tried to copy your writing style as much as I could without actually inserting litanies.
Heh! I almost wrote in my original comment: “How odd, an Eliezer post on Standard Biases written by Yvain”, but worried that it might look like stealing credit, or that you might not like the comparison. I futzed around, deleted, and finally wrote “excellent post” instead. The wish for two upvotes is because my Standard Biases posts are the ones I feel least guilty about writing.
Thank you. Since I learned practically everything I know about rationality either from you or from books you recommended, I’m very happy to earn your approval...but also a little amused, since I consciously tried to copy your writing style as much as I could without actually inserting litanies.
Heh! I almost wrote in my original comment: “How odd, an Eliezer post on Standard Biases written by Yvain”, but worried that it might look like stealing credit, or that you might not like the comparison. I futzed around, deleted, and finally wrote “excellent post” instead. The wish for two upvotes is because my Standard Biases posts are the ones I feel least guilty about writing.
I must admit that when I wrote my reply I was operating on the assumption that I was replying to Eliezer. In fact, I even adressed it as such.
Fortunately I checked to see that nobody else had written the same point I was making before I posted.
Brilliant work Yvain!