Christian_Szegedy comments on Why I'm Staying On Bloggingheads.tv - Less Wrong

25 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 September 2009 08:15PM

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Comment author: Christian_Szegedy 08 September 2009 12:05:20AM *  2 points [-]

Fundamentally, people talking to each other on public video just doesn't strike me as such a bad, terrible, awful thing, even if it's about something you shouldn't have to debate. Now setting up Behe with a non-opponent was terrible, but I'm willing to accept that as an honest mistake.

Hmmm... Does it also apply to your discussion with Aubrey de Grey?

Objectively (putting asides my own personal (non-expert) views, hopes etc.) It was a diavlog without any clashes but quite far from current scientific consensus.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 September 2009 12:34:05AM 3 points [-]

Does it also applie to your discussion with Aubrey de Grey?

They requested an interview rather than a debate. Did my best to just expose the BHTV audience to de Grey's ideas, and query further in one or two places where I disagreed with him (without going too deep).