Psy-Kosh: My guess is that most learning is deeper and more authentic if it is from one’s own experience. Eliezer seems to particularly prize personal learning, favoring secrecy in science in his idea of paradise.
This actually explains quite a few parts of HPMoR.
Although, unlike many others, Eliezer appears to accept this goal as lesser than the goal of actually advancing knowledge in the first place, preferring to learn and share knowledge (like LessWrong) in the pursuit of more knowledge rather than to gather less knowledge, but be The Knowledge Gatherer™.
Psy-Kosh: My guess is that most learning is deeper and more authentic if it is from one’s own experience. Eliezer seems to particularly prize personal learning, favoring secrecy in science in his idea of paradise.
This actually explains quite a few parts of HPMoR.
Although, unlike many others, Eliezer appears to accept this goal as lesser than the goal of actually advancing knowledge in the first place, preferring to learn and share knowledge (like LessWrong) in the pursuit of more knowledge rather than to gather less knowledge, but be The Knowledge Gatherer™.