MichaelGR comments on A Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer (Step 1: The Proposition) - Less Wrong

16 Post author: MichaelGR 29 October 2009 03:04PM

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 29 October 2009 04:01:03PM 10 points [-]

I much prefer text to speech, because it's faster and allows random access. For that reason I've hardly ever watched bloggingheads, and I doubt I'd watch the proposed video. Also, this proposition isn't for a real time dialog, but spoken answers to written questions supplied in advance.

Has Eliezer done TED yet? I'd watch that.

Comment author: MichaelGR 29 October 2009 04:39:44PM *  2 points [-]

I prefer text to speech too. But it doesn't have to be one or the other.

I find both to be complementary, and I feel that the few times that I've seen Eliezer speak (at Singularity Summit, BHTV, etc) have made him more "real" to me and added something to my reading of his texts.

I just want more of that, I guess.

Update: Just to be clear, are you saying you would like a Q&A but in text format instead of video, or that you don't want a Q&A at all and prefer the usual blog posts?