I agree with khafra. Your response to my post is distortionary. The statement which you quote was a statement about the reference class of people who believe themselves to be the most important person in the world. The statement which you quote was not a statement about FAI.
Any adequate response to the statement which you quote requires that you engage with the last point that khafra made:
Whether this likelihood ratio is large enough to overcome the evidence on AI-related existential risk and the paucity of serious effort dedicated to combating it is an open question.
You have not satisfactorily addressed this matter.
It looks to me like Eliezer gave your post the most generous interpretation possible, i.e. that it actually contained an argument attempting to show that he’s deluding himself, rather than just defining a reference class and pointing out that Eliezer fits into it. Since you’ve now clarified that your post did nothing more than that, there’s not much left to do except suggest you read all of Eliezer’s posts tagged ‘FAI’, and this.
I agree with khafra. Your response to my post is distortionary. The statement which you quote was a statement about the reference class of people who believe themselves to be the most important person in the world. The statement which you quote was not a statement about FAI.
Any adequate response to the statement which you quote requires that you engage with the last point that khafra made:
You have not satisfactorily addressed this matter.
It looks to me like Eliezer gave your post the most generous interpretation possible, i.e. that it actually contained an argument attempting to show that he’s deluding himself, rather than just defining a reference class and pointing out that Eliezer fits into it. Since you’ve now clarified that your post did nothing more than that, there’s not much left to do except suggest you read all of Eliezer’s posts tagged ‘FAI’, and this.