The first part, with its references to the Unabomber and the “nerd rapture,” had me expecting a load of criticism of SIAI. The amount of respect it got in the second half was surprising. Anecdotal evidence that SIAI is doing a good job of setting itself up as the respectable, sane, not-Ray-Kurzweil version of existential risk advocacy.
The first part, with its references to the Unabomber and the “nerd rapture,” had me expecting a load of criticism of SIAI. The amount of respect it got in the second half was surprising. Anecdotal evidence that SIAI is doing a good job of setting itself up as the respectable, sane, not-Ray-Kurzweil version of existential risk advocacy.