timtyler comments on Bloggingheads: Robert Wright and Eliezer Yudkowsky - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 07 August 2010 01:02:53PM *  3 points [-]

One of the better BHTV episodes, IMO. Robert Wright was a bit heavy on rhetoric for me: Have you sobered up? Why don't you accuse me of blah. Oh, if you are going to fling acusations around, that isn't very scientific - etc. Also the enthusiasm for extracting some kind of concession from Eliezer about updating his position at the end.

Wright gets a bit excited towards the end. It has some entertainment value - but tends to interfere with the discussion a little. It would have helped if he could have read some EY.

Interesting topics, though.