Lord. I was just chuckling at the circularity.
What about only as a little helpful? Would that fail to prove you wrong?
If my comments on this thread have been more enlightening to Roko than whatever he could have been studying instead of posting this then my argument is wrong. I sorely doubt that since my comments only conclude that Roko should have done something other than post this (Less wrong might be the only place on the internet where you can say this to someone). My comments weren't extremely helpful. At best they were marginally helpful and that is why I'm not actually contradicting myself.
Prove what wrong, exactly?
The criticism that this post wasn't worth the time.
Is Roko really proving you wrong by accepting the advice, or are you proving yourself wrong by offering advice you yourself believe to be relevant and worthwhile? How does Roko accepting the criticism make the criticism itself less accurate or helpful?
See the first answer. I don't think the criticism was extremely helpful. And the criticism's accuracy doesn't change. But the extent to which Roko gains from reading it is less objective.
Finally, isn't the best way to prove you wrong to show a flaw in your reasoning? No. It is a lot more fun to performatively render someone's point circular.
Last time, I wrote about 11 core rationalist skills. Now I would like some help from the LW community: which of these skills am I good at, which ones am I bad at? Just to recap, the skills are:
I'll post a description of each one of these skills as a comment, and if you think I am good at that skill, vote it up. If you think I am bad at it, vote it down. Don't be too shy - even if you are biased or uncertain - because over the course of many votes, these biases and errors will cancel out to some extent. (This is the "guess the number of beans in a jar by asking 50 people to guess and taking the average" method)
EDIT: We can also comment on each rationalist skill to say how well I am doing at that skill. Later today, I will do this myself.
Thanks in advance!