-Then I would have at least expected Eliezer Yudkowsky to be _in favor of_ rather than _against_ his faithful students having these very basic capabilities for reflection, self-observation, and ... _speech_? I would have expected Eliezer Yudkowsky to not _actively exert optimization pressure in the direction of transforming me into a Jane Austen character_.
+Then I would have at least expected Eliezer Yudkowsky to take actions _in favor of_ rather than _against_ his faithful students having these very basic capabilities for reflection, self-observation, and ... _speech_? I would have expected Eliezer Yudkowsky to not _actively exert optimization pressure in the direction of transforming me into a Jane Austen character_.
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+This is the part where defenders of the Caliphate will no doubt accuse me of failing to model the Other. Yudkowsky surely doesn't _think of himself_ as trying to transform his readers into Jane Austen characters; if I'm inclined to describe his conduct that way, does it not follow that I have failed to understand his position?
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+I claim that it does not. [...]
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+The substance of my accusation is not about Yudkowsky's _conscious subjective narrative_. Everyone has a story about why they're in the right, why they could not have done otherwise. Even accepting that everyone believes their own story, it does not therefore follow that no one ever commits any crimes.
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+My accusation is about a pattern of _publicly visible behavior_ stretching over years. (Thus, "take actions" in favor of/against, rather than "be"; "exert optimization pressure in the direction of", rather than "try".)
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+https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1435618825198731270
+> The Other's theory of themselves usually does not make them look terrible. And you will not have much luck just yelling at them about how they must really be doing terrible_thing instead
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