Re:Ask HN: Is Eliezer Yudkowsky a genius playing the long game?
by reducesuffering on Monday April 03, 2023 @03:38PM
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Eliezer has been working on AI theory for 23 years, AI risks for 18. He foresaw what is happening today super long ago while practically everyone else on HN was asleep at the wheel. Call him crazy if you want, he's taking the wrong side of Pascal's wager. But, Sam Altman, who is leading all this, cares enough about his opinions that they have spoken in person.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Eliezer Yudkowsky a genius playing the long game?
by catchnear4321 on Monday April 03, 2023 @06:07PM
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Plenty of others could be described in a positive light that leans too hard on their association with powerful people as indication of their objective worth.
How many talked to Epstein? He was good with money or something, and powerful people kept showing up with him. Even after his trial!
Re:Ask HN: Is Eliezer Yudkowsky a genius playing the long game?
by dragonwriter on Monday April 03, 2023 @06:10PM
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> But, Sam Altman, who is leading all this, cares enough about his opinions that they have spoken in person.
Sam Altman has a financial interest in using AI doom fears to lobby for regulation that obstructs competitors, thereby serving OpenAI as an incumbent leader, and also as part of the PR machine justifying “Open”AI not being at all open, also for competitive reasons. Yudkowsky is a useful prop for Altman’s commercial interests.