CarlShulman comments on The Litany Against Gurus - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 December 2007 08:11PM

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Comment author: CarlShulman 18 December 2007 10:26:50PM 1 point [-]

"Envy me! Aim at me! Rival me! Transcend me!"

Eliezer,

Can you name 3 people who have transcended you in particular areas of rationality, and those areas? How about Spearman's g? Capacity/willpower for altruistic self-sacrifice? Conscientiousness? Tendency not to be overconfident about disastrous philosophical errors? Philosophical creativity? Mathematical creativity? Same questions with respect to 'rivaled.'

Also, your use of poetry and talk of the 'Way of Rationality' seems to be counter-signaling.

Nick,

Plenty of religious and political organizations accuse outsiders and heretics of various kinds of bias and irrationality, and 'apply' the same criteria to themselves. The problem is that they do so in a biased fashion.

Comment author: Swimmer963 05 March 2011 06:54:58PM 1 point [-]

"Also, your use of poetry and talk of the 'Way of Rationality' seems to be counter-signaling."

In what sense is this counter-signaling?