+1; I mentioned before that I hoped this would get featured, and I’m happy that was the final decision. I also encouraged Thrasymachus to post this here and to the EA Forum, because the timing works out so well. My only source of hesitation was that I don’t want people to assume that when Eliezer talks about “modest epistemology” in Inadequate Equilibria, he’s just talking about Thrasymachus’ strong version of modesty.
Thrasymachus’ post above feels a lot like a sequence to me: there are many different parts to it, and while there are central threads running through the post, in practice I expect to mostly want to cite this or that part. And there are parts I strongly agree with or find useful, even though I strongly disagree with other parts and would often frame things differently.
In terms of length, I think it could be valuable for someone in the comment section to attempt a short section-by-section summary. This is good general practice not only for conveying more of the gist to time-constrained readers, but also for giving Thrasymachus an opportunity to correct the summary if it turns out that his arguments have been misunderstood in some way.
+1; I mentioned before that I hoped this would get featured, and I’m happy that was the final decision. I also encouraged Thrasymachus to post this here and to the EA Forum, because the timing works out so well. My only source of hesitation was that I don’t want people to assume that when Eliezer talks about “modest epistemology” in Inadequate Equilibria, he’s just talking about Thrasymachus’ strong version of modesty.
Thrasymachus’ post above feels a lot like a sequence to me: there are many different parts to it, and while there are central threads running through the post, in practice I expect to mostly want to cite this or that part. And there are parts I strongly agree with or find useful, even though I strongly disagree with other parts and would often frame things differently.
In terms of length, I think it could be valuable for someone in the comment section to attempt a short section-by-section summary. This is good general practice not only for conveying more of the gist to time-constrained readers, but also for giving Thrasymachus an opportunity to correct the summary if it turns out that his arguments have been misunderstood in some way.