gwern comments on Freedom From Choice: Should we surrender our freedom to an external agent? How much? - Less Wrong

-5 Post author: Raw_Power 26 May 2011 12:11PM

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Comment author: gwern 26 May 2011 05:56:43PM 11 points [-]

I voted it up because I feel that especially for beginners negative feedback should basically be no worse than -1, and also because I'm an Eva fan.

From the title, I had expected to read about cognitive prostheses, the extended mind hypothesis, wireheading, Dewey's "Learning What to Value" AIXI variant, etc.

And what did I get... That said, why is this a bad article? Because it seems to consist entirely of half-baked rhetorical questions, odd examples and language, and no hard grounding of any kind or even a clear thesis. Basically, it reads like the stereotypical freshman college student bull session.