Yudkowsky showed laughable naivete (or he was just playing dark arts) by citing a bunch of “foreign policy experts” who were against Trump. They were against Trump because they were neocons who might have a spot in a Clinton administration but certainly not in Trump’s. (People who describe themselves as “experts” implying impartiality should never be taken at face value—most of the times they are advocates rather than experts.)
Hillary Clinton’s state department pushed the “Arab Spring” policies which turned the middle east and north Africa into a total slaughterhouse and caused hundreds of thousands of people to die and displaced millions, causing a huge increase in tensions and threatening EU integration. I don’t really see why anyone would want to trust the “expertise” of the people responsible for this. Of course, Scott Alexander supported the Libya intervention (and moralized about it obnoxiously). Has he ever admitted he was wrong?
Yudkowsky showed laughable naivete (or he was just playing dark arts) by citing a bunch of “foreign policy experts” who were against Trump. They were against Trump because they were neocons who might have a spot in a Clinton administration but certainly not in Trump’s. (People who describe themselves as “experts” implying impartiality should never be taken at face value—most of the times they are advocates rather than experts.)
Hillary Clinton’s state department pushed the “Arab Spring” policies which turned the middle east and north Africa into a total slaughterhouse and caused hundreds of thousands of people to die and displaced millions, causing a huge increase in tensions and threatening EU integration. I don’t really see why anyone would want to trust the “expertise” of the people responsible for this. Of course, Scott Alexander supported the Libya intervention (and moralized about it obnoxiously). Has he ever admitted he was wrong?