Yeah. Frankly of all the criticisms of EA that might be easily be turned into something more substantial, accurate and useful with a little bit of reframing, a liberalism-hating surveillance-tech investor dressing his fundamental loathing of its principles and opposition to the limits it might impose on tech he actively promotes in pretentious pseudo-Christian allusion seems least likely to add any value. [1]
Doesn’t take much searching of the forum to find outsider criticisms of aspects of the AI safety movement which are a little less oblique than comparing it with the Antichrist, written by people without conflicts of interest who’ve probably never written anything as dumb as this, most of which seem to get less sympathetic treatment.
and I say that as someone more in agreement with the selected Thiel pronouncements on how impactful and risky near-term AI is likely to be than the average EA
Yeah. Frankly of all the criticisms of EA that might be easily be turned into something more substantial, accurate and useful with a little bit of reframing, a liberalism-hating surveillance-tech investor dressing his fundamental loathing of its principles and opposition to the limits it might impose on tech he actively promotes in pretentious pseudo-Christian allusion seems least likely to add any value. [1]
Doesn’t take much searching of the forum to find outsider criticisms of aspects of the AI safety movement which are a little less oblique than comparing it with the Antichrist, written by people without conflicts of interest who’ve probably never written anything as dumb as this, most of which seem to get less sympathetic treatment.
and I say that as someone more in agreement with the selected Thiel pronouncements on how impactful and risky near-term AI is likely to be than the average EA