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.
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
On a related note, it's a programming cliche that 90% of development time is trying to think up the right names for things.
Y'all know the rules: