Russia doesn’t have enough money; carpet bombing civilians is expensive and inefficient
Didn’t Russia actually use carpet bombing over the past several years in Chechnia and in Syria? If they were willing to do it in those cases I can’t imagine money being the limiting factor now… And from what I see so far is consistent with the Russian army switching their strategy more and more towards bombing the enemy into submission like they did in Syria.
Question to Eliezer: would you agree with the gist of the following? And if not, any thoughts on what lead to a strong sense of ‘coherence in your worldview’ as Vaniver put it?
Vaniver, I feel like you’re pointing at something that I’ve noticed as well and am interested in too (the coherence of Eliezer’s worldview as you put it). I wonder if has something to do with not going to uni but building his whole worldview all by him self. In my experience uni often tends towards to cramming lots of facts which are easily testable on exams, with less emphasis on understanding underlying principles (which is harder to test with multiple choice questions). Personally I feel like I had to spend my years after uni trying to make sense, a coherent whole if you like, of all the separate things I’ve learned while in uni where things were mostly just kind of put out there without constantly integrating things. Perhaps if you start out thinking much more about underlying principles earlier on it’s easier to integrate all the separate facts into a coherent whole as you go along. Not sure if Eliezer would agree with this. Maybe it’s even much more basic and he just always had a very strong sense of dissatisfaction if he couldn’t make things cohere into a whole and this urge for things to make sense was much more important than self studying or thinking about underlying principles before and then during the learning of new knowledge...
I would like to point out a section in the latest Shay/Yudkowsky dialogue where Eliezer says some things about this topic, does this feel like it’s the same thing you are talking about Vaniver?