Fail to ask a clear question, and you will fail to get a clear answer.
You know Yudkowsky also wants to save the world right?
Not quite save—EY wants to lessen the chance that the humans will be screwed over by off-the-rails AI.
That Less Wrong is ultimately about saving the world?
Oh grasshopper, maybe you will eventually learn that not all things are what they look like and even fewer are what they say the are.
you’re in the wrong place
I am disinclined to accept your judgement in this matter :-P
Hypothetically, suppose you came across a great man … In what way would your response to him be different to your response to curi?
Obviously it depends on the way he presented his new ideas. curi’s ideas are not new and were presented quite badly.
There are two additional points here. One is that knowledge is uncertain, fallible, if you wish. Knowledge about the future (= forecasts) is much more so. Great men rarely know they are great, they may guess at their role in history but should properly be very hesitant about it.
Two, I’m much more likely to meet someone who knew he was Napoleon, the rightful Emperor of France, and honestly said so rather than a truly great man who goes around proclaiming his greatness. I’m sure Napoleon has some great ideas that I’m unfamiliar with—what should my response be?
Fail to ask a clear question, and you will fail to get a clear answer.
Not quite save—EY wants to lessen the chance that the humans will be screwed over by off-the-rails AI.
Oh grasshopper, maybe you will eventually learn that not all things are what they look like and even fewer are what they say the are.
I am disinclined to accept your judgement in this matter :-P
Obviously it depends on the way he presented his new ideas. curi’s ideas are not new and were presented quite badly.
There are two additional points here. One is that knowledge is uncertain, fallible, if you wish. Knowledge about the future (= forecasts) is much more so. Great men rarely know they are great, they may guess at their role in history but should properly be very hesitant about it.
Two, I’m much more likely to meet someone who knew he was Napoleon, the rightful Emperor of France, and honestly said so rather than a truly great man who goes around proclaiming his greatness. I’m sure Napoleon has some great ideas that I’m unfamiliar with—what should my response be?