I must confess I have a personal vendetta against Yudkowsky and his cult. I studied computer science in college. As an undergrad, I worked as an AI research assistant. I develop software for a living. This is my garden the LessWrong crowd is trampling.
Ever read that interview from that particular Silicon Valley executive that claimed that the LLM product from their own company "felt warm" and emotionally moved them while also admitting that they lacked experience with human contact so they had nothing else to compare that experience to and thusly concluded that human contact was inferior to the LLM's printed validation mantras?