![]() ![]() I also find the way he collects zealous followers more than a little worrying – the computer scientist Ben Goertzel has recently reported getting death threats from people who believe (following Yudkowsky’s rhetoric) that Goertzel’s investigations into AI have the potential to destroy the universe. ![]() He seems the brightest of the various Singularity advocates, but that makes it all the more annoying when at times he falls into what look like incredibly basic faults in his reasoning. ![]() I have very ambivalent feelings about Eliezer Yudkowsky, the founder of the LessWrong group blog. I haven’t looked at them since, so it may be that my judgement of them as someone in my early twenties was very different from what my judgement would be now, in my early thirties. I read through them in one day, and found them unimaginative, morally repugnant, barely literate, patronising crap. I loathe the Harry Potter books – or at least I loathed the first four, eight years ago, when a friend sent me. A revised and improved version of this essay is in my book Sci-Ence! Justice Leak! – hardback, paperback, PDF ![]()
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