Bluntly, IMO gold medalists who can conceive of working on something ‘crazy’ like FAI would be expected to better understand the QM sequence than that. Even more so they would be expected to understand the core arguments better than to get offended by my having come to a conclusion. I haven’t heard from the opposite side at all, and while the probability of my hearing about it might conceivably be low, my priors on it existing are rather lower than yours, and the fact that I have heard nothing is also evidence. Carl, who often hears (and anonymizes) complaints from the outside x-risk community, has not reported to me anyone being offended by my QM sequence.
Smart people want to be told something smart that they haven’t already heard from other smart people and that doesn’t seem ‘obvious’. The QM sequence is demonstrably not dispensable for this purpose—Mihaly said the rest of LW seemed interesting but insufficiently I-wouldn’t-have-thought-of-that. Frankly I worry that QM isn’t enough but given how long it’s taking me to write up the Lob problem, I don’t think I can realistically try to take on TDT.
Bluntly, IMO gold medalists who can conceive of working on something ‘crazy’ like FAI would be expected to better understand the QM sequence than that. Even more so they would be expected to understand the core arguments better than to get offended by my having come to a conclusion. I haven’t heard from the opposite side at all, and while the probability of my hearing about it might conceivably be low, my priors on it existing are rather lower than yours, and the fact that I have heard nothing is also evidence. Carl, who often hears (and anonymizes) complaints from the outside x-risk community, has not reported to me anyone being offended by my QM sequence.
Smart people want to be told something smart that they haven’t already heard from other smart people and that doesn’t seem ‘obvious’. The QM sequence is demonstrably not dispensable for this purpose—Mihaly said the rest of LW seemed interesting but insufficiently I-wouldn’t-have-thought-of-that. Frankly I worry that QM isn’t enough but given how long it’s taking me to write up the Lob problem, I don’t think I can realistically try to take on TDT.
Again, you seem to be generalizing from a single example, unless you have more data points than just Mihaly.