Airedale comments on Why We Can't Take Expected Value Estimates Literally (Even When They're Unbiased) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Airedale 21 August 2011 04:22:15PM 7 points [-]

I have a weird rather mixed reputation among the greater LW community, so if that affects you negatively please pretend that someone with a more solid reputation but without super high karma is asking this question, like Steven Kaas.

Unless you would be much less involved in this potential program than the comment indicates, this seems like an inappropriate request. If people view you negatively due to your posting history, they should absolutely take that information into account in assessing how likely they would be to provide financial support to such a program (assuming that the negative view is based on relevant considerations such as your apparent communication or reasoning skills as demonstrated in your comments).

Comment author: Will_Newsome 21 August 2011 05:47:06PM 6 points [-]

Unless you would be much less involved in this potential program than the comment indicates, this seems like an inappropriate request.

I was more interested in Less Wrong's interest in new FAI-focused organizations generally than in anything particularly tied to me.

Comment author: Airedale 21 August 2011 10:11:13PM 6 points [-]

Fair enough, but in light of your phrasing in both the original comment ("If I [did the following things]") and your comment immediately following it (quoted below; emphasis added), it certainly appeared to me that you seemed to be describing a significant role for yourself, even though your proposal was general overall.

(Some people, including me, would really like it if a competent and FAI-focused uber-rationalist non-profit existed. I know people who will soon have enough momentum to make this happen. I am significantly more familiar with the specifics of FAI (and of hardcore SingInst-style rationality) than many of those people and almost anyone else in the world, so it'd be necessary that I put a lot of hours into working with those who are higher status than me and better at getting things done but less familiar with technical Friendliness. But I have many other things I could be doing. Hence the question.)

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