I am particularly unimpressed by and Yudkowski’s cynical (and more importantly, unsubstantiated) opinion of their motivations behind AAAI’s dismissal of singularity worries in their panel report.
“As far as I’m concerned, these are eminent scientists from outside the field that I work in, and I have no evidence that they did anything more than snap judgment of my own subject material. It’s not that I have specific reason to distrust these people—the main name I recognize is Horvitz and a fine name it is. But the prior probabilities are not good here.”
Where did he respond to that?
I was just looking for the link:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/1f4/less_wrong_qa_with_eliezer_yudkowsky_ask_your/197s
“As far as I’m concerned, these are eminent scientists from outside the field that I work in, and I have no evidence that they did anything more than snap judgment of my own subject material. It’s not that I have specific reason to distrust these people—the main name I recognize is Horvitz and a fine name it is. But the prior probabilities are not good here.”