my contribution to the discourse is that this sentence is straussian; what cade is really trying to tell us is that scott is the avatar
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“but QC tell us your object-level takes”
my object-level takes are easily guessed, scott good, NYT bad, if you want more detail than that buy me dinner first
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when i wrote the rationalist thread awhile back someone said something like “actually high-quality good-faith criticism of the rationalists is incredibly rare and you’re in an unusually good position to provide it” and i am having thonks about that
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really weird thinking about how i, personally, could write an actually good constructive critique of the rationalists that would blow this piece out of the water along every possible dimension
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actually it would be more fun to talk about this than write about this. podcast? clubhouse room? hmmmmmm
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it's live! this is the interview i didn't give cade metz
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rationalists are in the news For Some Reason
earlier, @cademetz asked and failed to interview (ex? post?) rationalist @QiaochuYuan for the hit piece published today because my god who would talk to cade metz
but QC had things to say and does so here:
soundcloud.com/user-557955426
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