Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on The Useful Idea of Truth - Less Wrong

77 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 October 2012 06:16PM

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Comment author: thomblake 02 October 2012 03:10:53PM 3 points [-]

his masterpiece

Really, more like his student work. It was "Blog every day so I will have actually written something" not "Blog because that is the ultimate expression of my ideas".

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 October 2012 06:34:21PM 4 points [-]

Yep. The main problem would be that I'd been writing for year and years before then, and, alas for our unfair universe, also have a certain amount of unearned talent; finding somebody who can pick up the Sequences and improve them without making them worse, despite their obvious flaws as they stand, is an extremely nontrivial hiring problem.

Comment author: Bo102010 03 October 2012 01:18:07AM -2 points [-]

Not to mention that any candidate up to the task likely has more lucrative alternatives...