Eliezer is cleanly just a major contributor. If he went off the rails tomorrow, some people would follow him (and the community would be better with those few gone), but the vast majority would say “wtf is that Eliezer fellow doing”. I also don’t think he sees himself as the leader of the community either.
Probably Eliezer likes Eliezer more than EA/Rationality likes Eliezer, because Eliezer really likes Eliezer. If I were as smart & good at starting social movements as Eliezer, I’d probably also have an inflated ego, so I don’t take it as too unreasonable of a character flaw.
Eliezer is cleanly just a major contributor. If he went off the rails tomorrow, some people would follow him (and the community would be better with those few gone), but the vast majority would say “wtf is that Eliezer fellow doing”. I also don’t think he sees himself as the leader of the community either.
Probably Eliezer likes Eliezer more than EA/Rationality likes Eliezer, because Eliezer really likes Eliezer. If I were as smart & good at starting social movements as Eliezer, I’d probably also have an inflated ego, so I don’t take it as too unreasonable of a character flaw.