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Upvoted the original for reference to Prince of Nothing series. And upvoted this comment for the terms "sympathetic model" and "causal model", which is one of those times that having the right word for a concept you've been trying to understand is worth a month of trying to untangle things in your head.
...although now I'm not sure whether I should upvote Eliezer or Michael Vassar. It seems kind of unfair to deny Michael an upvote just because the specific instantiation of his algorithm that said this happened to be running on Eliezer's brain at the time.
On a related note, it's a programming cliche that 90% of development time is trying to think up the right names for things.
"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things" - Phil Karlton
I read this out of context and interpreted "naming things" so that it generalized cache invalidation. So I wanted to complain that it's only one thing.
I'd say both, although I'm actually to lazy to go find a random post by Michael and upvote it.