In the first quote, he sets up the straw man as gwern describes it. In the second quote, he defends his first straw man by saying “but that’s what singularitarians believe”, essentially putting up a second straw man to defend the first.
In the first quote, he sets up the straw man as gwern describes it. In the second quote, he defends his first straw man by saying “but that’s what singularitarians believe”, essentially putting up a second straw man to defend the first.