-_Should_ I have known that it wouldn't work? _Didn't_ I "already know", at some level? I guess in retrospect, the outcome does seem kind of "obvious"—that it should have been possible to predict in advance and make the corresponding update without so much fuss and wasting so many people's time.
+_Should_ I have known that it wouldn't work? _Didn't_ I "already know", at some level?
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+I guess in retrospect, the outcome does seem kind of "obvious"—that it should have been possible to predict in advance, and to make the corresponding update without so much fuss and wasting so many people's time.
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+But ... it's only "obvious" if you _take as a given_ that Yudkowsky is playing a savvy Kolmogorov complicity strategy like any other public intellectual in the current year. Maybe this seems banal if you haven't spent your entire adult life in his robot cult?
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+But since I _did_ spend my entire adult life in his robot cult, the idea that Eliezer Yudkowsky was going to behave just as badly as any other public intellectual in the current year, was not really in my hypothesis space.
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+"sacrificed all hope of success in favor of maintaining his own sanity by CC'ing you guys (which I think he was correct to do conditional on email happening at all)"
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