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There are people on this site whose thinking I respect enough that, were they to say something of this sort to me, I would at least acknowledge that I ought to re-evaluate the process that got me to where I am, despite their having not much intimate knowledge about me. (There are also people in my real life who have that property.)
Whether I would actually do it is a much more complicated and contingent question.
I was asking more about the sending side of the advice rather than the receiving side. How do I debug someone else's rationality processes using just the information I can get from their posts and comments on LW? (Assuming they are not a newbie with really obvious flaws, but closer to Eliezer's level.)
Hm.
Are you asking "how could I tell that someone else isn't being rational?" or "how could I communicate to someone else that they aren't being rational in such a way that they'd benefit from it?" or something else?
Something else: I can sometimes tell that someone else on LW isn't being rational but can't see which part of their rationality process is broken, or not sufficiently activated. (Communicating this to them may also be a problem but wasn't the one I specifically had in mind.) I'm wondering if Eliezer thinks it is possible to do this over LW. Perhaps others have better skills for this than I do, or we should just try harder?
Ah, gotcha. Yes, that makes sense; thanks for clarifying.