Bit of a tangent, but how the fuck does anyone take Yud seriously? The man never even went to high school let alone college. He's set himself up as some sort of expert on artificial intelligence when for all we know he's never even written a goddamn helloworld program.
Grabbing big money donations from rich idiots to start an "AI safety research institute" and then proceeding to publish 0 AI safety research, choosing instead to write fanfiction is a respectable career decision. You don't have to like the man, but you do have to respect the grift
He waas extremely online at a point when being so pretty much guaranteed a certain amount of long term notoriety, wrote a few extremely wrong and extremely compelling pieces of work in the late 90s that got him attention from real scholars in the USENET boards, leveraged that into a blog with Robin Hanson, and has been coasting on the laurels since.
Bit of a tangent, but how the fuck does anyone take Yud seriously? The man never even went to high school let alone college. He's set himself up as some sort of expert on artificial intelligence when for all we know he's never even written a goddamn helloworld program.
Grabbing big money donations from rich idiots to start an "AI safety research institute" and then proceeding to publish 0 AI safety research, choosing instead to write fanfiction is a respectable career decision. You don't have to like the man, but you do have to respect the grift
He waas extremely online at a point when being so pretty much guaranteed a certain amount of long term notoriety, wrote a few extremely wrong and extremely compelling pieces of work in the late 90s that got him attention from real scholars in the USENET boards, leveraged that into a blog with Robin Hanson, and has been coasting on the laurels since.