From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 20:27:31 MST
Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> Well, not that it's anything to brag about, but some of us lead
> with our jaws, so to speak. There can be something not a little
> confrontational about how we phrase things. The only reason
> I think that you have been less a target on this list than I
> is that you are less ideological. (In a political sense.)
Heh heh heh. No, Lee, the reason I am less a target on this list is that
I have more experience at avoiding it and because everyone has already
gotten it out of their system. You should have been around here in the
old days. You ain't never been psychoanalyzed to half the depth I was.
>>And possibly because you and I consciously use and *mention*
>>declarative principles of rationality.
>
> Well, you do that more than I do. Besides, why would that
> itself upset anyone? We don't really have any anti-rationalists
> I know of on this list.
There are, however, plenty of people who don't agree with you, or with me,
about what constitutes "rationality". These days I understand rationality
a little better and hence have an easier time invoking it implicitly
instead of explicitly.
>>Someday I hope to become a nice rationalist.
>
> Well, I'm already very nice---except, as I said for being
> rather confrontational at times, and sometimes denouncing
> nonsense rather uncompromisingly. But I too have a rather
> long ways to go to get where Anders is.
No, you're not very nice. Nor am I. It would be my great tragedy, if not
for the fact that I do seem to be making progress on it.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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