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7 Post author: FAWS 04 April 2012 02:53AM

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Comment author: Incorrect 06 April 2012 04:02:09AM *  5 points [-]

I think HP is partially based on EY. For example, EY once bit a teacher. Also he stopped attending school for different reasons.

Comment author: RobertLumley 06 April 2012 05:36:12AM *  5 points [-]

That is really interesting. But I can't help but feel like I'm violating his privacy when I read that:

"Likewise, please do not mirror or duplicate this page."

In light of that, it's difficult for me to feel OK reading it on WayBack Machine...

Comment author: arundelo 09 April 2012 06:31:08PM 3 points [-]

I'm sure Eliezer knows that old stuff of his is on archive.org. If he wanted to, he could have it removed.

Comment author: Percent_Carbon 10 April 2012 05:25:05AM 2 points [-]

Indeed, information security is a process, not a status.

Comment author: Anubhav 10 April 2012 11:47:01AM *  1 point [-]

Duplicating the page, maybe, but he absolutely can't forbid quoting it or linking to it; those actions'd fall under fair use in most cases.

(That is, if you care about copyright law at all.)

Comment author: thomblake 09 April 2012 05:37:15PM 0 points [-]

I was going to forward you the link I had to that page somewhere in the wild, but looks like my bookmark is to the wayback machine as well. Whoops...

Comment author: Alex_Altair 10 April 2012 02:52:46AM 1 point [-]

This is everything I've wanted to know about Eliezer.

Comment author: Percent_Carbon 10 April 2012 05:24:00AM 1 point [-]

It probably shouldn't be everything you wanted to know about him.

This is what EY thought of his own history in 2000. He was only 21, at the cusp of adulthood.

Now EY has a better understanding of present EY, of EY in 2000, and of his own history throughout. And he's still probably wrong about things about himself that are obvious to others and go unmentioned anyway, like almost everyone.

You could reasonably want to know less than everything, you could reasonable want to know all the things on that page, but you are probably not serving your own interests well if the things on that page are all you seek to know.

Comment author: Alex_Altair 10 April 2012 12:19:03PM 2 points [-]

Yeah, I wasn't being literal. What I meant was that I really enjoy reading a personal narrated biography of someone that I really admire. Usually you can't get that until they're super famous or dead.