MichaelVassar comments on New Year's Predictions Thread - Less Wrong

18 Post author: MichaelVassar 30 December 2009 09:39PM

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Comment author: MichaelVassar 31 December 2009 09:58:12PM 14 points [-]

I agree, but I do think that given your status in the community maybe it behooves you to be nicer if at all possible.

Comment author: komponisto 31 December 2009 10:15:32PM 6 points [-]

Strongly agree.

(I think what happened here was that Eliezer was particularly annoyed at this prediction, since it's the sort of thing that gives his field a bad name.)

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 December 2009 10:32:40PM 3 points [-]

Down that road lies madness. I'm not Gandalf.