this was already posted on reddit sneerclub, but I decided to crosspost it here so you guys wouldn’t miss out on Yudkowsky calling himself a genre savy character, and him taking what appears to be a shot at the Zizzians

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    9 hours ago

    So I was wondering, did they at LW ever make something from the ELIZA effect? Cant recall them talking about it, and the importance of it on bias and the obsession with AGI seems important.

    (If they didnt, it seems an important gap in ‘teaching the methods of agreeing with me sanity’).

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      19 hours ago

      Eliezer calling himself genre savy and above tropes as an actual serious coping mechanism is simply too good to not bring back up. the weirdest way to deny being depressed I’ve seen