You made hostile claims that weren’t following on from prior discussion,[1] and in my view nasty and personal insinuations as well, and didn’t have anything to back it up.
This seems relatively straightforwardly false. In as much as Sean is making claims about the right strategy to follow for FHI, and claiming that the errors at FHI were straightforwardly Bostrom’s fault and attributable to ‘garden variety incompetence’, the degree of historical success of the strategies that Sean seems to be advocating for is of course relevant in assessing whether that’s accurate. And CSER and Leverhulme seem like the obvious case studies that are available here.
We can quibble over the exact degree of relevance of the points I brought up, but the logical connection here seems straightforward.
didn’t have anything to back it up.
Separately, I see no way how you could know whether I have anything to back up my criticism. I have written about my thoughts on CSER in the past, and I did not intend to write up all the thoughts and evidence I have in this thread.
If you want we can have a call for an hour, or you can investigate this question yourself and come to your own conclusion, and then you can make a judgement of whether I have anything to back up my opinion, but as I have said upthread, I don’t consider myself to have an obligation to extensively document the evidence for all of my opinions and judgements before I feel comfortable expressing them.
This seems relatively straightforwardly false. In as much as Sean is making claims about the right strategy to follow for FHI, and claiming that the errors at FHI were straightforwardly Bostrom’s fault and attributable to ‘garden variety incompetence’, the degree of historical success of the strategies that Sean seems to be advocating for is of course relevant in assessing whether that’s accurate. And CSER and Leverhulme seem like the obvious case studies that are available here.
We can quibble over the exact degree of relevance of the points I brought up, but the logical connection here seems straightforward.
Separately, I see no way how you could know whether I have anything to back up my criticism. I have written about my thoughts on CSER in the past, and I did not intend to write up all the thoughts and evidence I have in this thread.
If you want we can have a call for an hour, or you can investigate this question yourself and come to your own conclusion, and then you can make a judgement of whether I have anything to back up my opinion, but as I have said upthread, I don’t consider myself to have an obligation to extensively document the evidence for all of my opinions and judgements before I feel comfortable expressing them.