You can sometimes argue people into beliefs. It is much harder to argue them into skills. The negation of Robin Hanson’s rosier AI scenario was a belief. Negating an endless stream of rosy scenarios is a skill
A belief can be a negation in the sense of a contradiction , whilst not being a negation in the sense of a disproof. I dont think EY disproved RH’s position. I dont think he is confident he did himself, since his summary was called “what I believe if not why I believe it”. And I dont think lack of time was the problem, since the debate was immense.
Interesting, yeah I wonder why he titled it that. Still though it seems like he is claiming here to have disproved RH’s position to some extent at least. I for one think RH’s position is pretty implausible, for reasons Yudkowsky probably mentioned (I don’t remember exactly what Yud said).
A belief can be a negation in the sense of a contradiction , whilst not being a negation in the sense of a disproof. I dont think EY disproved RH’s position. I dont think he is confident he did himself, since his summary was called “what I believe if not why I believe it”. And I dont think lack of time was the problem, since the debate was immense.
Interesting, yeah I wonder why he titled it that. Still though it seems like he is claiming here to have disproved RH’s position to some extent at least. I for one think RH’s position is pretty implausible, for reasons Yudkowsky probably mentioned (I don’t remember exactly what Yud said).
Why the “seems”? A master rationalist should be able to state things clearly , surely?