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.
LOGI had some flawed promise but he's gone progressively down the road of pseudo scientistic mysticism ever since and now his tweets have no relationship to reality and are entirely made out of what his wierd SF techbro sponsors want to hear.
It's not even good mysticism. Like is there a long term danger from AGI...probably a little. Is this even a remotely rigorous or effective way of ascertaining that risk? Nope its all warmed over neoplatonist bullshit cloaked in science terms
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Fuck I know it's all a grift but I dearly hope life extension turns out to be possible just so China can beat the fuckers to the punch and roll it out for free to the entire population but not to billionaires.
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Whenever someone says "AGI" you can mentally substitute "cold fusion." To the best of our knowledge, we have little reason to think such a thing is even possible and plenty of reason to think it isn't.
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