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But, of course, "weird" versus "evil" is not even broadly agreed upon.
And "weird" includes many things Eliezer advocates, but I would be very surprised if it did not include things that Eliezer most certainly would not advocate.
Of course it does. For example: dressing up as a penguin and beating people to death with a live fish. But that's largely irrelevant. Rejecting 'weird' as the class of things that must never be done is not the same thing as saying that all things in that class must be done. Instead, weirdness is just ignored.