speaking for myself, eliezer has played no role in encouraging me to give quantitative probability distributions. For me, that was almost entirely due to people like Tetlock and Bryan Caplan, both of whom I would have encountered regardless of Eliezer. I strongly suspect this is true of lots of people who are in EA but don’t identify with the rationalist community
More generally, I do think that Eliezer and other rationalists overestimate how much influence they have had on wider views in the community. eg I have not read the sequences and I just don’t think it plays a big role in the internal story of a lot of EAs.
For me, even people like Nate Silver or David McKay, who aren’t part of the community, have played a bigger role on encouraging quantification and probabilistic judgment.
speaking for myself, eliezer has played no role in encouraging me to give quantitative probability distributions. For me, that was almost entirely due to people like Tetlock and Bryan Caplan, both of whom I would have encountered regardless of Eliezer. I strongly suspect this is true of lots of people who are in EA but don’t identify with the rationalist community
More generally, I do think that Eliezer and other rationalists overestimate how much influence they have had on wider views in the community. eg I have not read the sequences and I just don’t think it plays a big role in the internal story of a lot of EAs.
For me, even people like Nate Silver or David McKay, who aren’t part of the community, have played a bigger role on encouraging quantification and probabilistic judgment.
This is my impression and experience as well