Hi Aaron, I’m glad that you and others felt they got value out of our post and the discussion in the comments. (And obviously I’m glad that we won a Forum prize.)
I’d just like to clarify a few things because I’m concerned that your writeup might imply the opposite, at least on some readings:
I think I made a number of mistakes of exposition, particularly with the summary (which is the part of our long Google doc that I included in the EA Forum post). [I’m using “I” here since I was the main author of the wording, and so I think mistakes of exposition are primarily my rather than Ben’s responsibility.] The discussion helped me realize this, which I’m grateful for.
I don’t think I was substantially wrong about any of my key beliefs on this topic. More broadly, I have changed my mind about the ‘substance’ of our findings only to a very limited extent.
(Just based on priors I think that probably some of my current beliefs on this topic are wrong. But I don’t know which ones and how, and the discussion didn’t help me make progress with this.)
Minor: My understanding is that Ben intended to say that his summary for the 80k blog is “more accurate” than his own earlier Twitter summary (as opposed to being more accurate than the EA Forum post summary). But I didn’t ask Ben for clarification and would welcome a correction.
From my perspective, the two summaries serve different purposes and are optimized for different audiences. I don’t think that one is generally more accurate than the other.
Hi Aaron, I’m glad that you and others felt they got value out of our post and the discussion in the comments. (And obviously I’m glad that we won a Forum prize.)
I’d just like to clarify a few things because I’m concerned that your writeup might imply the opposite, at least on some readings:
I think I made a number of mistakes of exposition, particularly with the summary (which is the part of our long Google doc that I included in the EA Forum post). [I’m using “I” here since I was the main author of the wording, and so I think mistakes of exposition are primarily my rather than Ben’s responsibility.] The discussion helped me realize this, which I’m grateful for.
I don’t think I was substantially wrong about any of my key beliefs on this topic. More broadly, I have changed my mind about the ‘substance’ of our findings only to a very limited extent.
(Just based on priors I think that probably some of my current beliefs on this topic are wrong. But I don’t know which ones and how, and the discussion didn’t help me make progress with this.)
Minor: My understanding is that Ben intended to say that his summary for the 80k blog is “more accurate” than his own earlier Twitter summary (as opposed to being more accurate than the EA Forum post summary). But I didn’t ask Ben for clarification and would welcome a correction.
From my perspective, the two summaries serve different purposes and are optimized for different audiences. I don’t think that one is generally more accurate than the other.