Reading the comments, I saw it somehow turned into a discussion on whether or not Eliezer Yudkowski elects biased favor for cryonics, transhumanism, etc. Didn’t read far enough to see anyone hurl any accusations of Nazism or Hitler-likeness, but I’ll weigh in and say that I’m new to Lesswrong and enjoy a good amount of Eliezer’s articles and find them to be good tools for learning clear thought, and I also have almost no familiarity with any of his theories (or opinions as it may be) that fall outside the scope of heuristics, fallacies, statistics or decision. So far I’ve only managed to read a smattering of Bayesian statistics and Feynman (still struggling with both), but I would concider the whole thing a wasted effort if elected any human to a level beyond question. If I read Eliezer’s articles on the Affect Heuristic and think “I’ll just accept this as true because Mr Yudkowski says it’s true. Phew! Thank goodness someone smarter than me did all that heavy thinking for me” than CLEARLY I need to reread it
Reading the comments, I saw it somehow turned into a discussion on whether or not Eliezer Yudkowski elects biased favor for cryonics, transhumanism, etc. Didn’t read far enough to see anyone hurl any accusations of Nazism or Hitler-likeness, but I’ll weigh in and say that I’m new to Lesswrong and enjoy a good amount of Eliezer’s articles and find them to be good tools for learning clear thought, and I also have almost no familiarity with any of his theories (or opinions as it may be) that fall outside the scope of heuristics, fallacies, statistics or decision. So far I’ve only managed to read a smattering of Bayesian statistics and Feynman (still struggling with both), but I would concider the whole thing a wasted effort if elected any human to a level beyond question. If I read Eliezer’s articles on the Affect Heuristic and think “I’ll just accept this as true because Mr Yudkowski says it’s true. Phew! Thank goodness someone smarter than me did all that heavy thinking for me” than CLEARLY I need to reread it