Maybe the examples are ambiguous but they don’t seem cherrypicked to me. Aren’t these some of the topics Yudskowky is most known for discussing? It seems to me that the cherrypicking criticism would apply to opinions about, I don’t know, monetary policy, not issues central to AI and cognitive science.
Maybe the examples are ambiguous but they don’t seem cherrypicked to me. Aren’t these some of the topics Yudskowky is most known for discussing? It seems to me that the cherrypicking criticism would apply to opinions about, I don’t know, monetary policy, not issues central to AI and cognitive science.
If I was trying to list central historical claims that Eliezer made which were controversial at the time I would start with things like:
AGI is possible.
AI alignment is the most important issue in the world.
Alignment will not be easy.
People will let AGIs out of the box.