multifoliaterose comments on Existential Risk and Public Relations - Less Wrong

36 Post author: multifoliaterose 15 August 2010 07:16AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 August 2010 03:03:07PM 0 points [-]

And saddened once again at how people seem unable to distinguish "multi claims that something Eliezer said could be construed as claim X" and "Eliezer claimed X!"

Please note that for the next time you're worried about damaging an important cause's PR, multi.

Comment author: multifoliaterose 18 August 2010 04:08:02PM 9 points [-]

My understanding of JRMayne's remark is that he himself construes your statements in the way that I mentioned in my post.

If JRMayne has misunderstood you, you can effectively deal with the situation by making a public statement about what you meant to convey.

Note that you have not made a disclaimer which rules out the possibility that you claim that you're the most important person in human history. I encourage you to make such a disclaimer if JRMayne has misunderstood you.