A more analytical piece would have been more verbose and challenging. There isn’t exactly a lack of verbose and challenging intros to rationality. This fills a gap.
I’m sure the author consciously picked the kinds of impressions that he believes would be most relevant to readers, were they to make his journey. So when he describes, say, Eliezer’s body language, I suspect that body language really is remarkably odd (at least on first impressions), not that the author picked something small and idiosyncratic to remark on for no reason.
Where do you think that Eliezer’s body language is described as remarkably odd? If you mean “He wore glasses,
had a short, dark beard, and his heavy body seemed slightly alien to him.”, I’m not sure.
It might be a reference to the way Eliezer talks about his body and ideas about cryonics that only the brain matters.
I’m not sure to what extend that’s something typical for Eliezer as I never meet him in person. If it is, it’s a sign that normal emotional regulation is off. But then various people in this community aren’t neurotypical.
You can (or could) watch EY debating (e.g. w/ that presumptuous jaron lanier guy) over videoconference and like many less-polished speakers he has some visible tics while searching for a thought or turn of phrase while feeling under the gun + not wanting to lose his turn to speak.
A more analytical piece would have been more verbose and challenging. There isn’t exactly a lack of verbose and challenging intros to rationality. This fills a gap.
I’m sure the author consciously picked the kinds of impressions that he believes would be most relevant to readers, were they to make his journey. So when he describes, say, Eliezer’s body language, I suspect that body language really is remarkably odd (at least on first impressions), not that the author picked something small and idiosyncratic to remark on for no reason.
Where do you think that Eliezer’s body language is described as remarkably odd? If you mean “He wore glasses, had a short, dark beard, and his heavy body seemed slightly alien to him.”, I’m not sure.
It might be a reference to the way Eliezer talks about his body and ideas about cryonics that only the brain matters.
The “slightly alien” thing and this:
I’m not sure to what extend that’s something typical for Eliezer as I never meet him in person. If it is, it’s a sign that normal emotional regulation is off. But then various people in this community aren’t neurotypical.
You can (or could) watch EY debating (e.g. w/ that presumptuous jaron lanier guy) over videoconference and like many less-polished speakers he has some visible tics while searching for a thought or turn of phrase while feeling under the gun + not wanting to lose his turn to speak.