Rain comments on Reply to Holden on The Singularity Institute - Less Wrong

46 Post author: lukeprog 10 July 2012 11:20PM

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Comment author: lukeprog 11 July 2012 08:31:32AM *  3 points [-]

That's an unfortunate response, given that I offered a detailed DH6-level disagreement (quote the original article directly, and refute the central points), and also offered important novel argumentation not previously published by SI. I'm not sure what else people could have wanted.

If somebody figures out why Kaj and some others had the reaction they did, I'm all ears.

Comment author: Rain 11 July 2012 12:52:32PM *  9 points [-]

It didn't have the same cohesiveness as Holden's original post; there were many more dangling threads, to borrow the same metaphor I used to say why his post was so interesting. You wrote it as a technical, thoroughly cited response and literature review instead of a heartfelt, wholly self-contained Mission Statement, and you made it very clear of that by stating at least 10 times that there was much more info 'somewhere else' (in conversations, in people's heads, yet to be written, etc.).

He wrote an intriguing short story, you wrote a dry paper.

Edit: Also, the answer to every question seems to be, "That will be in Eliezer's next Sequence," which postpones further debate.