Phil_Goetz comments on The Magnitude of His Own Folly - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 September 2008 11:31AM

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Comment author: Phil_Goetz 02 October 2008 04:16:00PM -1 points [-]

Phil Goetz and Tim Tyler, if you don't know what my opinions are, stop making stuff up. If I haven't posted them explicitly, you lack the power to deduce them.

I see we have entered the "vague accusation" stage of our relationship.

Eliezer, I've seen you do this repeatedly before, notably with Loosemore and Caledonian. If you object to some characterization I've made of something you said, you should at least specify what it was that I said that you disagree with. Making vague accusations is irresponsible and a waste of our time.

I will try to be more careful about differentiating between your opinions, and what I consider to be the logical consequences of your opinions. But the distinction can't always be made; when you say something fuzzy, I interpret it by assuming logical consistency, and that is a form of extrapolation.