See my post AI scares and changing public beliefs for one theory of exactly why what Yudkowsky is doing is a bad idea. I was of course primarily thinking of his approach when writing about polarization.
The other post I’ve been contemplating writing is “An unrecognized goddamn principle of fucking rational discourse: be fucking nice”. Yudkowsky talks down to people. That’s not nice, and it makes them emotionally want to prove him wrong instead of want to find ways to agree with him.
See my post AI scares and changing public beliefs for one theory of exactly why what Yudkowsky is doing is a bad idea. I was of course primarily thinking of his approach when writing about polarization.
The other post I’ve been contemplating writing is “An unrecognized goddamn principle of fucking rational discourse: be fucking nice”. Yudkowsky talks down to people. That’s not nice, and it makes them emotionally want to prove him wrong instead of want to find ways to agree with him.