Rather than focusing on where I disagree with this, I want to emphasize the part where I said that I liked a lot of the discussion if I frame it in my head differently. I think if you opened the Introduction section with the second paragraph of this reply (“In my post I have explained”), rather than first quoting Yudkowsky, you’d set the right expectations going into it. The points you raise are genuinely interesting, and tons of people have worldviews that this would be much more convincing to than Yudkowsky’s.
Rather than focusing on where I disagree with this, I want to emphasize the part where I said that I liked a lot of the discussion if I frame it in my head differently. I think if you opened the Introduction section with the second paragraph of this reply (“In my post I have explained”), rather than first quoting Yudkowsky, you’d set the right expectations going into it. The points you raise are genuinely interesting, and tons of people have worldviews that this would be much more convincing to than Yudkowsky’s.