Shouldn’t this cut both ways? Paul has also spent far fewer words justifying his approach to others, compared to MIRI.
The fact that Paul hasn’t had a chance to hear from many of his (would-be) critics and answer them means we don’t have a lot of information about how promising his approach is, hence my “too early to call it more promising than HRAD” conclusion.
I actually do have some objections to it, but I feel it is likely to be significantly useful even if (as I, obviously, expect) my objections end up having teeth.
Have you written down these objections somewhere? My worry is basically that different people looked at Paul’s approach and each thought of a different set of objections, and they think, “that’s not so bad”, without knowing that there’s actually a whole bunch of other objections out there, including additional ones that people would find if they thought and talked about Paul’s ideas more.
The fact that Paul hasn’t had a chance to hear from many of his (would-be) critics and answer them means we don’t have a lot of information about how promising his approach is, hence my “too early to call it more promising than HRAD” conclusion.
Have you written down these objections somewhere? My worry is basically that different people looked at Paul’s approach and each thought of a different set of objections, and they think, “that’s not so bad”, without knowing that there’s actually a whole bunch of other objections out there, including additional ones that people would find if they thought and talked about Paul’s ideas more.