Most people would read this as “the hotel room costs $500 and the EA-adjacent community bought the hotel complex in which that hotel is a part of”, while being written in a way that only insinuates and does not commit to meaning exactly that.
I disagree both that posts that are clearly marked as sharing unendorsed feelings in a messy way need to be held to a high epistemic standard, and that there is no good faith interpretation of the post’s particular errors. If you don’t want to see personal posts I suggest disabling their appearance on your front page, which is the default anyway.
This is a mistake on my own part that actually changes the impact calculus, as most people looking into AI x-safety on this place will not actually ever see this post. Therefore, the “negative impact” section is retracted.[1] I point to Ben’s excellent comment for a correct interpretation of why we still care.
I do not know why I was not aware of this “block posts like this” feature, and I wonder if my experience of this forum was significantly more negative as a result of me accidentally clicking “Show Personal Blogposts” at some point. I did not even know that button existed.
No other part of my post is retracted. In fact, I’d like to reiterate a wish for the community to karma-enforce [2] the norms of:
the epistemic standard of talking about falsifiable things;
the accepted rhetoric being fundamentally honest and straightforward, and always asking “compared to what?” before making claims;
the aversion to present uncertainties as facts.
Thank you for improving my user experience of this site!
Personal is a special tag in various ways, but you can ban or change weightings on any tag. You can put a penalty on tag so you see it less, but still see very high karma posts, or give tags a boost so even low karma posts linger on your list.
I disagree both that posts that are clearly marked as sharing unendorsed feelings in a messy way need to be held to a high epistemic standard, and that there is no good faith interpretation of the post’s particular errors. If you don’t want to see personal posts I suggest disabling their appearance on your front page, which is the default anyway.
This is a mistake on my own part that actually changes the impact calculus, as most people looking into AI x-safety on this place will not actually ever see this post. Therefore, the “negative impact” section is retracted.[1] I point to Ben’s excellent comment for a correct interpretation of why we still care.
I do not know why I was not aware of this “block posts like this” feature, and I wonder if my experience of this forum was significantly more negative as a result of me accidentally clicking “Show Personal Blogposts” at some point. I did not even know that button existed.
No other part of my post is retracted. In fact, I’d like to reiterate a wish for the community to karma-enforce [2] the norms of:
the epistemic standard of talking about falsifiable things;
the accepted rhetoric being fundamentally honest and straightforward, and always asking “compared to what?” before making claims;
the aversion to present uncertainties as facts.
Thank you for improving my user experience of this site!
I am now slightly proud that my original disclaimer precisely said that this was the part I was unsure of the most.
As in, I wish to personally be called out on any violations of the described norms.
Personal is a special tag in various ways, but you can ban or change weightings on any tag. You can put a penalty on tag so you see it less, but still see very high karma posts, or give tags a boost so even low karma posts linger on your list.