Extremely annoying to read something, halfway in discovering it’s fake, then having to go back to re-update backwards on everything I “learned” from it
Re-update backwards
E: I keep thinking of Re-update backwards, how it is silly to have a special term for this (which prob means it has occurred often enough for them to think of one), and that it is silly to have to do this a lot because keeps happening and then not changing your behavior, how weird is your internet media consumption if you just assume everything you read on a blog is true. I would hope the first time people fall for that (I fell for adequacy [dot] org (I checked the actual link and got a red paged ‘this site is dangerous’ warning so not sure if the archive is still up, not used to those red paged warnings so didn’t follow up on it) at the time, in my defense, I’m a fool) they start to be a bit less trustworthy of random stuff they read. But nope, re-update your priors backwards.
Eliezer’s response is especially stupid given that he has cited his fictional worldbuilding project like it is evidence (we have examples saved over on the reddit sneerclub).
a lot of which also exists on the archives here (although I guess now with that side also existing as frankenstein’s monster there might be some funkiness going on)
So it got them so upset presumably because they thought it mocked the basilisk incident, I guess with Roko as Laurentius and Yudkowsky as the other guy?
It would be too too funny if it were really the case that a century of Kafka scholarship missed the point.
I haven’t read any Kafka scholarship and I didn’t even finish reading The Trial, but I can see the flattery and contradiction of being let in on a secret.
This was a good read. I also read the post/story/essay that got the rats upset and it’s good too.
https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-law-that-can-be-named-is-not
Yud’s sputtering reaction can be read here among the comments here
https://xcancel.com/captgouda24/status/1946398995556819149
Reaction ro Yud:
And reply from what I assume is a lesswronger:
Re-update backwards
E: I keep thinking of Re-update backwards, how it is silly to have a special term for this (which prob means it has occurred often enough for them to think of one), and that it is silly to have to do this a lot because keeps happening and then not changing your behavior, how weird is your internet media consumption if you just assume everything you read on a blog is true. I would hope the first time people fall for that (I fell for adequacy [dot] org (I checked the actual link and got a red paged ‘this site is dangerous’ warning so not sure if the archive is still up, not used to those red paged warnings so didn’t follow up on it) at the time, in my defense, I’m a fool) they start to be a bit less trustworthy of random stuff they read. But nope, re-update your priors backwards.
Eliezer’s response is especially stupid given that he has cited his fictional worldbuilding project like it is evidence (we have examples saved over on the reddit sneerclub).
a lot of which also exists on the archives here (although I guess now with that side also existing as frankenstein’s monster there might be some funkiness going on)
So it got them so upset presumably because they thought it mocked the basilisk incident, I guess with Roko as Laurentius and Yudkowsky as the other guy?
It would be too too funny if it were really the case that a century of Kafka scholarship missed the point.
I haven’t read any Kafka scholarship and I didn’t even finish reading The Trial, but I can see the flattery and contradiction of being let in on a secret.