There’s a world of difference between the link-phrases ‘here’s an argument about why you should do x’ and ‘do x’. Only Eliezer seems to regularly merit the latter.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/LvwihGYgFEzjGDhBt/?commentId=x5zqnevWR8MQHqqvd—link to Duncan Sabien, “I care about the lives we can save if we don’t rush to conclusions, rush to anger, if we can give each other the benefit of the doubt for five freaking minutes and consider whether it’d make any sense whatsoever for the accusation de jour to be what it looks like,” seems pretty darn ‘do x’-y. I don’t necessarily stand behind how strongly I came on there, I was in a pretty foul mood.
I think that mostly, this is just how people talk.
I am not making the stronger claim that there are zero people who hero-worship Eliezer Yudkowsky.
There’s a world of difference between the link-phrases ‘here’s an argument about why you should do x’ and ‘do x’. Only Eliezer seems to regularly merit the latter.
Here are the last four things I remember seeing linked as supporting evidence in casual conversation on the EA forum, in no particular order:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/LvwihGYgFEzjGDhBt/?commentId=HebnLpj2pqyctd72F—link to Scott Alexander, “We have to stop it with the pointless infighting or it’s all we will end up doing,” is ‘do x’-y if anything is. (It also sounds like a perfectly reasonable thing to say and a perfectly reasonable way to say it.)
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/LvwihGYgFEzjGDhBt/?commentId=SCfBodrdQYZBA6RBy—separate links to Scott Alexander and Eliezer Yudkowsky, neither of which seem very ‘do x’-y to me.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/irhgjSgvocfrwnzRz/?commentId=NF9YQfrDGPcH6wYCb—link to Scott Alexander, seems somewhat though not extremely ‘do x’-y to me. Also seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to say and I stand by saying it.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/LvwihGYgFEzjGDhBt/?commentId=x5zqnevWR8MQHqqvd—link to Duncan Sabien, “I care about the lives we can save if we don’t rush to conclusions, rush to anger, if we can give each other the benefit of the doubt for five freaking minutes and consider whether it’d make any sense whatsoever for the accusation de jour to be what it looks like,” seems pretty darn ‘do x’-y. I don’t necessarily stand behind how strongly I came on there, I was in a pretty foul mood.
I think that mostly, this is just how people talk.
I am not making the stronger claim that there are zero people who hero-worship Eliezer Yudkowsky.