I strongly disagree with the claim that the connection to EA and doing good is unclear. The EA community’s beliefs about AI have been, and continue to be, strongly influenced by Eliezer. It’s very pertinent if Eliezer is systematically wrong and overconfident about being wrong because, insofar as there’s some level of defferal to Elizer on AI questions within the EA community which I think there clearly is, it implies that most EAs should reduce their credence in Elizer’s AI views.
I strongly disagree with the claim that the connection to EA and doing good is unclear. The EA community’s beliefs about AI have been, and continue to be, strongly influenced by Eliezer. It’s very pertinent if Eliezer is systematically wrong and overconfident about being wrong because, insofar as there’s some level of defferal to Elizer on AI questions within the EA community which I think there clearly is, it implies that most EAs should reduce their credence in Elizer’s AI views.
Thanks for commenting — I agree with your main point, and wrote more here.