"I suspect that there's a real fundamental values gap (or a vastly different collection of weights and terms in utility functions, if you swing that way) which make my opinion less useful to you than it might otherwise be."
I'm very curious as to what exactly you mean here. I have an inkling what you mean, but it sounds a bit like:
"So which did you prefer, Paris or India?"
"Well, they're both great, in very different ways. You like adventure and I like relaxation so my preference will be different to yours".
"But you've been to both and I haven't been to either, so I just want to hear what they're really like, and what the guidebooks don't tell you..."
I'll send you an email, would love to hear more of your thoughts if you have time.
I'm very curious as to what exactly you mean here.
Let's say there's a particular worldview, call it A, under which Musk is a heroic figure. (There are infinitely many, but pretend that we can narrow it down to one well-specified one, for the sake of illustration.) Let's call my worldview B. A and B do share occasional points of overlap, but they're very, very, very different from each other. A is, in fact, so different from B that if I describe some salient ways in which B is different, I think many people who subscribe to A would think I was intentionally picking a fight with them.
One minor codicil in B is "All else being equal, do not pick message board fights, and most especially do not pick fights on message boards at 6:30 AM in the morning."
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Thanks a lot, that's very helpful.
"I suspect that there's a real fundamental values gap (or a vastly different collection of weights and terms in utility functions, if you swing that way) which make my opinion less useful to you than it might otherwise be."
I'm very curious as to what exactly you mean here. I have an inkling what you mean, but it sounds a bit like:
"So which did you prefer, Paris or India?"
"Well, they're both great, in very different ways. You like adventure and I like relaxation so my preference will be different to yours".
"But you've been to both and I haven't been to either, so I just want to hear what they're really like, and what the guidebooks don't tell you..."
I'll send you an email, would love to hear more of your thoughts if you have time.
I'm very curious as to what exactly you mean here.
Let's say there's a particular worldview, call it A, under which Musk is a heroic figure. (There are infinitely many, but pretend that we can narrow it down to one well-specified one, for the sake of illustration.) Let's call my worldview B. A and B do share occasional points of overlap, but they're very, very, very different from each other. A is, in fact, so different from B that if I describe some salient ways in which B is different, I think many people who subscribe to A would think I was intentionally picking a fight with them.
One minor codicil in B is "All else being equal, do not pick message board fights, and most especially do not pick fights on message boards at 6:30 AM in the morning."