Open Thread: July 2010, Part 2

Alicorn

Heard on #lesswrong:

BTW, I figured out why Eliezer looks like a cult leader to some people. It's because he has both social authority (he's a leader figure, solicits donations) and epistemological authority (he's the top expert, wrote the sequences which are considered canonical).

If, for example, Wei Dai kicked Eliezer's ass at FAI theory, LW would not appear cultish

This suggests that we should try to make someone else a social authority so that he doesn't have to be.

(I hope posting only a log is ok)

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