Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Eliezer's Sequences and Mainstream Academia - All

99 Post author: lukeprog 15 September 2012 12:32AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 September 2012 01:45:59PM 8 points [-]

The thought that Luke was trying to sabotage my position, consciously or unconsciously, honestly never crossed my mind until I read this comment. Having now considered the hypothesis rather briefly, I assign it a rather low probability. Luke's not like that.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 21 September 2012 07:37:47PM 3 points [-]

It is perhaps worth noting that wedrifid didn't say anything about motives (conscious or otherwise).

Whether I believe someone is trying to sabotage my position (consciously or unconsciously) is a different question from whether I believe they are making a move against me in a shared social hierarchy. (Although each is evidence for the other, of course.)