Please don’t downvote the hell out of me, I’m just trying to create a future reference for this sort of annoyance.
I downvoted for this line alone. Both for the “don’t downvote me because yay I’m a free thinker and if only cultish people would downvote” implication and because if I want a reference in the future I can use the google custom search to find the last dozen posts with more or less the same content. (The rest of your post was fine without this footnote and well worth answering.)
What did the man, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, actually accomplish in his own field?
Roughly speaking he created it and popularized it. In the other field—the one you are referring to and the one that contains Eliza bots he has done nothing at all that I am aware of.
Divulgation does seem to be the most significant achievement, particularly in regards to Friendliness philosophy and rational thinking. His secondary accomplishments seem to be the actual theorizing he has done regarding decision theory and shaking steps toward Friendliness theory.
Then I hope you and people like you vote accordingly! The Opening Post is more or less form letter and we don’t need to vote them up just because we want to prove how counter-cultish we are.
I downvoted for this line alone. Both for the “don’t downvote me because yay I’m a free thinker and if only cultish people would downvote” implication and because if I want a reference in the future I can use the google custom search to find the last dozen posts with more or less the same content. (The rest of your post was fine without this footnote and well worth answering.)
Roughly speaking he created it and popularized it. In the other field—the one you are referring to and the one that contains Eliza bots he has done nothing at all that I am aware of.
Divulgation does seem to be the most significant achievement, particularly in regards to Friendliness philosophy and rational thinking. His secondary accomplishments seem to be the actual theorizing he has done regarding decision theory and shaking steps toward Friendliness theory.
I find “don’t downvote me” mildly bad. But I find “I downvoted you for saying ‘don’t downvote me’” to be worse.
Then I hope you and people like you vote accordingly! The Opening Post is more or less form letter and we don’t need to vote them up just because we want to prove how counter-cultish we are.
Downvoting Roman strikes again!
Love it! Thanks.
Are you sure you didn’t miss the point? Seems to me like he was just trying to avoid being misunderstood as attacking Eliezer...