Thanks for the link, I wasn’t aware of that. Still disappointed to see an ad hominem argument. It’s true that Matthews only included it as a throwaway sentence, but this is the kind of characterization that readers can latch on to… feels like within-EA movement disagreements should be kept above the ad hominem level. (Also in favor of engaging opponents in a classy way, but let’s walk before we run.)
http://www.vox.com/2014/8/19/6031367/oxford-nick-bostrom-artificial-intelligence-superintelligence
Dylan Matthews has read Superintelligence and wrote an article+interview with Bostrom about it in August 2014.
Thanks for the link, I wasn’t aware of that. Still disappointed to see an ad hominem argument. It’s true that Matthews only included it as a throwaway sentence, but this is the kind of characterization that readers can latch on to… feels like within-EA movement disagreements should be kept above the ad hominem level. (Also in favor of engaging opponents in a classy way, but let’s walk before we run.)