Got to agree with the AI “analysis” being pretty limited, even though it flatters me by describing my analysis as “rigorous”.[1] It’s not a positive sign that this news update and jobs listing is flagged as having particularly high “epistemic quality”
That said, I enjoyed the ‘egregore’ section bits about the “ritualistic displays of humility”, “elevating developers to a priesthood” and “compulsive need to model, quantify, and systematize everything, even with acknowledged high uncertainty and speculative inputs ⇒ illusion of rigor”.[2] Gemini seems to have absorbed the standard critiques of EA and rationalism better than many humans, including humans writing criticisms of and defences of those belief systems. It’s also not wrong.
For a start I think most people reading our posts would conclude that Vasco and I disagree on far too much to be considered “intellectually aligned”, even if we do it mostly politely by drilling down to the details of each others’ arguments
Got to agree with the AI “analysis” being pretty limited, even though it flatters me by describing my analysis as “rigorous”.[1] It’s not a positive sign that this news update and jobs listing is flagged as having particularly high “epistemic quality”
That said, I enjoyed the ‘egregore’ section bits about the “ritualistic displays of humility”, “elevating developers to a priesthood” and “compulsive need to model, quantify, and systematize everything, even with acknowledged high uncertainty and speculative inputs ⇒ illusion of rigor”.[2] Gemini seems to have absorbed the standard critiques of EA and rationalism better than many humans, including humans writing criticisms of and defences of those belief systems. It’s also not wrong.
Its poetry is still Vogon-level though.
For a start I think most people reading our posts would conclude that Vasco and I disagree on far too much to be considered “intellectually aligned”, even if we do it mostly politely by drilling down to the details of each others’ arguments
OK, if my rigour is illusory maybe that complement is more backhanded than I thought :)