problematic people
.hg …
Wait
HPMoR's author is /the less wrong guy/
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problematic people
@moonbolt Yepp. In fact lesswrong is actually where we found HPMoR.
problematic people
@moonbolt (sidenote: We don't know anything about the lesswrong guy or why they're bad.)
problematic people, manipulation or conditioning
@rana .hg There was a thread a while back about the ethics of how he conditioned[?] a friend to cook for themself (rather than relying on restaurant and frozen food)
problematic people, manipulation or conditioning
@moonbolt
Ohh, I think you are confused here – LessWrong is a community blog, the person who did this specific thing is not the same guy who started the whole blog (and wrote HPMoR).
And the whole debacle is really an interesting discussion topic. I personally know one person who I'm sure enough would be fine with me doing that to them to feel that there are no ethical reasons to not do it, but I feel this is a rare situation. (I also wouldn't want to do something like this for many non-ethical reasons.) This is made more complicated by the fact that the LW community has both a huge overrepresentation of people who would be fine with this kind of manipulation being done to them, as well as people who wouldn' think twice about doing this to someone else without even noticing the ethical problems.
Anyway, I wouldn't be surprized if it turned out Eliezer said something problematic personally, but I don't follow him enough to know about it. I kinda doubt it would be bad enough for complete hatsunemukufication of his work though.
@rana
