TimS comments on Uncritical Supercriticality - Less Wrong

47 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 December 2007 04:40PM

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Comment author: TimS 08 November 2012 03:26:39AM 0 points [-]

In the abstract, there's nothing incoherent about using others' technical vocabulary with different meanings. But:

1) You are misleading yourself if you think you are communicating effectively with them.
2) Your statements about their positions will make no sense to them.
3) It comes off as quite arrogant - essentially you are asserting you know better how a concept works without even attempting to justify the assertion (or even noticing that such an assertion is necessary)

If Eliezer says he is a reductionist1 and you say he is not a reductionist2, you haven't done anything particularly clever or praiseworthy.