This may simply be because he is european, I have the feeling the she is not so well known/influential on this side of the atlantic. (My only evidence is that I first heard about her on Scott Aaronson’s blog, incidentalliy where I first heard about Overcoming Bias, too.)
He’s perfectly familiar with the works of Ayn Rand—as knb says, I guess he felt that the reference to libertarians suffices to ensure that the audience understand that singularitarians aren’t the sort of people you want to be associated with.
This may simply be because he is european, I have the feeling the she is not so well known/influential on this side of the atlantic. (My only evidence is that I first heard about her on Scott Aaronson’s blog, incidentalliy where I first heard about Overcoming Bias, too.)
He’s perfectly familiar with the works of Ayn Rand—as knb says, I guess he felt that the reference to libertarians suffices to ensure that the audience understand that singularitarians aren’t the sort of people you want to be associated with.