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gwern comments on Harper's Magazine article on LW/MIRI/CFAR and Ethereum - Less Wrong Discussion

44 Post author: gwern 12 December 2014 08:34PM

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Comment author: Kawoomba 12 December 2014 10:45:20PM *  6 points [-]

Some of the awkward personal details which are so deliciously expounded upon come close to character assassination. Shame on the author, going for the cheap shots. I can just imagine an exposé of the very same style used to denigrate, say, Alan Turing.

Comment author: gwern 12 December 2014 11:13:41PM 26 points [-]

Could have been much worse. He didn't even define the basilisk or spend half the article discussing it - or frozen chopped-off heads for that matter.