I don’t how to estimate it myself, so are these kind of depictions almost certainly because of Eliezer’s influence?
There have been other sci-fi writers talking about AI and the singularity. Charles Stross, Greg Egan, arguably Cory Doctorow… I haven’t seen the episode in question, so I can’t say who I think they took the biggest inspiration from.
I don’t how to estimate it myself, so are these kind of depictions almost certainly because of Eliezer’s influence?
There have been other sci-fi writers talking about AI and the singularity. Charles Stross, Greg Egan, arguably Cory Doctorow… I haven’t seen the episode in question, so I can’t say who I think they took the biggest inspiration from.