There is some somewhat similar material there - but E.Y. is reading out a question that has been submitted by a reader! Misquoting him while he is quoting someone else doesn't seem to be very fair!

[Edit: please note the parent has been dramatically edited since this response was made]

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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 22 August 2010 11:49:18PM 3 points [-]

You should not use quotation marks unless the quotes are verbatim. The "gist" does not suffice.

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Comment author: Emile 23 August 2010 09:03:46AM 3 points [-]

I haven't followed the ins and the outs of this pointless drama, but I had assumed those were things Eliezer actually said. I'm pretty miffed to learn that those weren't actually quotes, but rather something you had "inferred from revealed self-evident wisdom".

That kind of stuff makes it tempting to pretty much ignore anything you write.

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Comment author: Emile 23 August 2010 12:39:08PM * 3 points [-]

I listened to the video. He said that while reading aloud a question someone was asking him.

I'm not objecting to the reformulation in your now modified post. I'm just pissed that you made me believe that it was an actual Eliezer Yudkowsky quote.

Comment author: XiXiDu 23 August 2010 01:11:41PM * 0 points [-]

He said that while reading aloud a question someone was asking him.

Look, I didn't know that everything within these "" symbols is taken to be the verbatim quotation of someone. I use them all the time to highlight or mark whatever I see fit. And the answers I wrote to the questions he has been asked resemble the gist of what he said. I simply didn't expect anyone to believe that I transcribed two +4 minute videos which I linked to right after. I also never made anyone believe anything controversial. It is something that I think is widely accepted within this community anyway and it is what he said in the videos, although more long-winded.

Comment author: Airedale 23 August 2010 02:45:45PM 6 points [-]

Look, I didn't know that everything within these "" symbols is taken to be the verbatim quotation of someone. I use them all the time to highlight or mark whatever I see fit.

The "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks

But on a more "serious" note, when the implication is that you're "quoting" someone, and you're "using" quotation marks, "readers" will generally interpret the marks as quoting rather than "highlighting."

continue this thread »

Comment author: Aleksei_Riikonen 12 August 2010 07:41:15PM 2 points [-]

How do your quotes claim that Eliezer Yudkowsky is the only person who should be leading?

(I would say that factually, there are also other people in leadership positions within SIAI, and Eliezer is extremely glad that this is so, instead of thinking that it should be only him.)

How do they demonstrate that donating to SIAI is "spending on a particular future"?

(I see it as trying to prevent a particular risk.)

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