I don’t have any comment to make about Torres or his motives (I think I was in a room with him once). However, as a more general point, I think it can still make sense to engage with someone’s arguments, whatever their motivation, at least if there are other people who take them seriously. I also don’t have a view on whether others in the longtermism/X-risk world do take Torres’s concern seriously, it’s not really my patch.
I don’t have any comment to make about Torres or his motives (I think I was in a room with him once). However, as a more general point, I think it can still make sense to engage with someone’s arguments, whatever their motivation, at least if there are other people who take them seriously. I also don’t have a view on whether others in the longtermism/X-risk world do take Torres’s concern seriously, it’s not really my patch.