In this specific case, I was writing about a colleague who kept hurting people in their attempts to help them with rationality. They kept managing to hurt people in novel and interesting ways, every time they patched the previous failure mode. “No. Stop.” would be in reference to “stop fiddling with people’s brains in this way.”
Similarly, Brent Dill had in fact been doing different damages to each of his romantic partners, but eventually the Berkeley community was like “no, we are horrified, we don’t care if you’re not making those specific mistakes anymore, we do not trust you to not make new ones.” In that case “No. Stop.” was in reference to “dating any of the women in our community.”
In Duncan-culture, when people say “no. Stop”, what’s the thing that they’re saying should stop?
In this specific case, I was writing about a colleague who kept hurting people in their attempts to help them with rationality. They kept managing to hurt people in novel and interesting ways, every time they patched the previous failure mode. “No. Stop.” would be in reference to “stop fiddling with people’s brains in this way.”
Similarly, Brent Dill had in fact been doing different damages to each of his romantic partners, but eventually the Berkeley community was like “no, we are horrified, we don’t care if you’re not making those specific mistakes anymore, we do not trust you to not make new ones.” In that case “No. Stop.” was in reference to “dating any of the women in our community.”