Comment by Alexey (alexey-1) on My techno-optimism [By Vitalik Buterin] · 2023-11-30T00:25:04.771Z · LW · GW

What is his d/acc philosophy in any short summary? What does he propose as guiding principles?

How can people unite behind a manifesto 10k words long, waxing poetic about a seemingly random assortment of someone's beliefs?

Can a few people try to summarize their understanding of "d/acc" into a paragraph, without reading other summaries first, to see if everybody but me got a sense of cohesive general idea from it?

Comment by Alexey (alexey-1) on The noncentral fallacy - the worst argument in the world? · 2020-01-30T21:43:42.503Z · LW · GW

"Argumentum ad verecundiam" translates to "argument from authority" in sounding-smart-speak (saving effort of googling for those who come after me)

And he doesn't appeal to authority, he's correctly addressing the points made by the theoretical opponent: "you just made that up..." and "that's just your opinion..."