If they had degrees I would have to assume they probably, sometime in the past, have passed an exam (which is not a good evidence of competence either, but at least is something).
I count only 1 out of 11 SIAI researcher not having a degree. (Paul Christiano’s bio hasn’t been updated yet, but he told me he just graduated from MIT). Click these links if you want to check for yourself.
If you want to change my view, you better actually link some posts that are evidence for them knowing something instead of calling what i say a ‘rant’.
I no longer have much hope of changing your views, but rather want to encourage you to make some positive contributions (like your belief propagation graph idea) despite having views that I consider to be wrong. (I can’t resist pointing out some of the more blatant errors though, like the above.)
In resident faculty i see two people, Eliezer and someone with a degree in mathematics, unspecific, with two years of work somewhere else.
In the associates I see people whose extent of association or agreement with the position I do not know. edit: I know though that Ben been there, and Kurzweil too, people with very different views from that of SIAI, or now SI)
As the most publicly visible I see Luke and Eliezer. edit: to whom i refer as them, as the rest looks like replaceable chaff chosen for not disagreeing with the core.
I count only 1 out of 11 SIAI researcher not having a degree. (Paul Christiano’s bio hasn’t been updated yet, but he told me he just graduated from MIT). Click these links if you want to check for yourself.
http://singinst.org/research/residentfaculty
http://singinst.org/aboutus/researchassociates
I no longer have much hope of changing your views, but rather want to encourage you to make some positive contributions (like your belief propagation graph idea) despite having views that I consider to be wrong. (I can’t resist pointing out some of the more blatant errors though, like the above.)
In resident faculty i see two people, Eliezer and someone with a degree in mathematics, unspecific, with two years of work somewhere else.
In the associates I see people whose extent of association or agreement with the position I do not know. edit: I know though that Ben been there, and Kurzweil too, people with very different views from that of SIAI, or now SI)
As the most publicly visible I see Luke and Eliezer. edit: to whom i refer as them, as the rest looks like replaceable chaff chosen for not disagreeing with the core.