Most of this just seems to be nitpicking lack of specificity of implicit assumptions which were self-evident (to me), the criticism regarding “blue” pretty much depends on whether the html blue also needs an interpreter(Eg;human brain) to extract the information.
The lack of formality seems (to me as a new user) a repeated criticism of the sequences but, I thought that was also a self-evident assumption (maybe I’m just falling prey to the expecting short inferential distance bias) I think Eliezer has mentioned 16 years ago here:
“This blog is directed at a wider audience at least half the time, according to its policy. I’m not sure how else you think this post should have been written.”
I personally find sequences to be useful aggregator of various ideas I seem to find intriguing at the moment...
Most of this just seems to be nitpicking lack of specificity of implicit assumptions which were self-evident (to me), the criticism regarding “blue” pretty much depends on whether the html blue also needs an interpreter(Eg;human brain) to extract the information.
The lack of formality seems (to me as a new user) a repeated criticism of the sequences but, I thought that was also a self-evident assumption (maybe I’m just falling prey to the expecting short inferential distance bias) I think Eliezer has mentioned 16 years ago here:
“This blog is directed at a wider audience at least half the time, according to its policy. I’m not sure how else you think this post should have been written.”
I personally find sequences to be useful aggregator of various ideas I seem to find intriguing at the moment...