I upvoted, because these are important concerns overall, but this sentence stuck out to me:
The fact that Yudkowsky doesn’t even know enough about Chollet to pronounce his name displays a troubling lack of effort to engage seriously with opposing views.
I’m not claiming that Yudkowsky does display a troubling lack of effort to engage seriously with opposing views or he does not display such, but surely this can be decided more accurately by looking at his written output online than at his ability to correctly pronounce names in languages he is not native in. I, personally, skip names while reading after noticing it is a name and I wouldn’t say that I never engaged seriously with someone’s arguments.
I upvoted, because these are important concerns overall, but this sentence stuck out to me:
I’m not claiming that Yudkowsky does display a troubling lack of effort to engage seriously with opposing views or he does not display such, but surely this can be decided more accurately by looking at his written output online than at his ability to correctly pronounce names in languages he is not native in. I, personally, skip names while reading after noticing it is a name and I wouldn’t say that I never engaged seriously with someone’s arguments.
Fair point.