You’re free to think whatever you like about him. However, insinuating that he’s committed sexual abuse when all he’s done is write weird fiction is just straight up a lie.
I’m not a fan either, but personally I just think he’s Reddit incarnate and quite benign as far those types go. The rationalist community naturally attracts other /r/atheism types, so it has a strong selection bias towards weirdos and crackpots, which explains the adjacency of the Zizians.
He preaches that we will create AI God. And he spread that belief through fanfic based on children’s literature.
This is such a dishonestly reductionist argument. Your judgement is clearly clouded by cynicism of the current AI industry.
Yudkowsky is not the inventor of the concept of the AI singularity. It’s a widely accepted concept among AI researchers and has been for a long time, and the way Yudkowsky speaks about it is more or less in line with the general consensus. It’s not “preaching” or a “cult” but reality.
The truth is that we don’t know what goes into intelligence, and we don’t know if our current AI technologies are capable of producing a singularity. Just like Yudkowsky (and many others) say, if the AI singularity does happen and we aren’t ready for it, it could be game over for humanity.
Yudkowsky of course has his own philosophical theories on how superhuman AI might be built responsibly. From what I’ve seen those aren’t particularly insane either, but it is a topic that for now is mostly philosophical. The problem is the risk of it going from philosophy to practice before we realise.
He wrote Harry Potter fanfiction so that more people would help him build God.
I’ve read his Harry Potter fanfiction and from what I remember it involved basically no AI themes at all. I’ve not read his other fiction (besides a short 2 page Haruhi story that a friend coincidentally linked me this week – also no AI themes there, just high school philosophy) so I can’t comment on those, but the article you’re quoting specifically mentions Methods of Rationality as an example and it simply has nothing to do with AI.
Rationalism is absolutely a cult - Yudkowsky’s. That’s why I asked you to explain how Yudkowsky positioning rape as rational in his doctrine is a good thing.
That’s why you have to contend with the fact that a rapist was one of the prominent members of his ranks.
Zizians are the logical consequence of his ideology, where it is moral to murder to prevent future possible harm.
It’s hard to keep his deranged fiction apart from his supposed nonfiction. He runs around the internet clashing with actual AI experts like Yann LeCun, telling them to read his BDSM fiction.
You’re free to think whatever you like about him. However, insinuating that he’s committed sexual abuse when all he’s done is write weird fiction is just straight up a lie.
I’m not a fan either, but personally I just think he’s Reddit incarnate and quite benign as far those types go. The rationalist community naturally attracts other /r/atheism types, so it has a strong selection bias towards weirdos and crackpots, which explains the adjacency of the Zizians.
This is such a dishonestly reductionist argument. Your judgement is clearly clouded by cynicism of the current AI industry.
Yudkowsky is not the inventor of the concept of the AI singularity. It’s a widely accepted concept among AI researchers and has been for a long time, and the way Yudkowsky speaks about it is more or less in line with the general consensus. It’s not “preaching” or a “cult” but reality.
The truth is that we don’t know what goes into intelligence, and we don’t know if our current AI technologies are capable of producing a singularity. Just like Yudkowsky (and many others) say, if the AI singularity does happen and we aren’t ready for it, it could be game over for humanity.
Yudkowsky of course has his own philosophical theories on how superhuman AI might be built responsibly. From what I’ve seen those aren’t particularly insane either, but it is a topic that for now is mostly philosophical. The problem is the risk of it going from philosophy to practice before we realise.
I’ve read his Harry Potter fanfiction and from what I remember it involved basically no AI themes at all. I’ve not read his other fiction (besides a short 2 page Haruhi story that a friend coincidentally linked me this week – also no AI themes there, just high school philosophy) so I can’t comment on those, but the article you’re quoting specifically mentions Methods of Rationality as an example and it simply has nothing to do with AI.
Rationalism is absolutely a cult - Yudkowsky’s. That’s why I asked you to explain how Yudkowsky positioning rape as rational in his doctrine is a good thing.
That’s why you have to contend with the fact that a rapist was one of the prominent members of his ranks.
Zizians are the logical consequence of his ideology, where it is moral to murder to prevent future possible harm.
Yudkowsky’s AI doomerism is eugenecist. Are you happy? There’s a review of his AI book.
It’s hard to keep his deranged fiction apart from his supposed nonfiction. He runs around the internet clashing with actual AI experts like Yann LeCun, telling them to read his BDSM fiction.