SoullessAutomaton comments on Mandatory Secret Identities - Less Wrong

28 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 April 2009 06:10PM

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Comment author: JulianMorrison 08 April 2009 09:20:55PM 1 point [-]

I have a question: why are you panicking about this now? It's not like we have a huge problem yet with too many teachers, or too many freshly founded schools.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 April 2009 09:57:17PM 5 points [-]

So that, having written up my thoughts on the subject, I can vanish into an appropriately dark basement for 5 years and not find armies of deranged Objectivists when I peek out? I'm trying to write up now everything that needs to be written up, which includes a contingency in case The Book takes off (should it be written and sold).

Comment author: JulianMorrison 08 April 2009 10:05:50PM 2 points [-]

The traditional fix is to anoint some disciples to teach in your stead.

Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 08 April 2009 10:20:17PM 12 points [-]

Yes, and my impression has been that annointed disciples are generally the instigators of things going subtly wrong in self-reinforcing ways. People with big, novel ideas are not necessarily good judges of character.