“I don’t fault 21-year-old Eliezer for trying (except insofar as he was totally wrong about the probability of Unfriendly AI at the time!), because the best way to learn that a weird new path is unviable is often to just take a stab at it”
It was only weird in that involved technologies and methods that were unlikely to work, and EY could have figured that out theoretically by learning more about AI and software development.
“I don’t fault 21-year-old Eliezer for trying (except insofar as he was totally wrong about the probability of Unfriendly AI at the time!), because the best way to learn that a weird new path is unviable is often to just take a stab at it”
It was only weird in that involved technologies and methods that were unlikely to work, and EY could have figured that out theoretically by learning more about AI and software development.