Hmm. I read it as “understand that there are people significantly more competent than others”. What have I missed? In his closing, he writes:
But I’m pretty sure that, statistically speaking, there’s a lot more cream at the top than most people seem willing to admit in writing.
He didn’t talk about the other part of my comment (that humans are a very small range of competency spectrum and NO human is very smart compared to imaginary perfect minds). That idea was the taken from the current post, which I tried to show was NOT a counterpoint, but just a compatible observation.
I think you’re right. I had a memory of the post where Eliezer was trying to say something like “We’re all in good hands,” but after rereading I don’t see that as much.
That doesn’t seem to be what Eliezer was implying though.
Hmm. I read it as “understand that there are people significantly more competent than others”. What have I missed? In his closing, he writes:
He didn’t talk about the other part of my comment (that humans are a very small range of competency spectrum and NO human is very smart compared to imaginary perfect minds). That idea was the taken from the current post, which I tried to show was NOT a counterpoint, but just a compatible observation.
I think you’re right. I had a memory of the post where Eliezer was trying to say something like “We’re all in good hands,” but after rereading I don’t see that as much.