As far as I know, Eliezer has never had anything to do with choices for Visiting Fellowship. As you know but some people on Less Wrong seem not to, Eliezer doesn’t run SIAI. (In reality, SIAI is a wonderful example of the great power of emergence, and is indeed the first example of a superintelligent organization.) (Just kidding.)
Right, but it seemed you were comparing the selection criteria for Visiting Fellowship and the selection criteria for Eliezer’s FAI team, which will of course be very different. Perhaps I misunderstood. I’ve been taking oxycodone every few hours for a lot of hours now.
As far as I know, Eliezer has never had anything to do with choices for Visiting Fellowship. As you know but some people on Less Wrong seem not to, Eliezer doesn’t run SIAI. (In reality, SIAI is a wonderful example of the great power of emergence, and is indeed the first example of a superintelligent organization.) (Just kidding.)
But he has significant discretion over who he takes as an apprentice, irrespective of what SIAI leadership might do.
Right, but it seemed you were comparing the selection criteria for Visiting Fellowship and the selection criteria for Eliezer’s FAI team, which will of course be very different. Perhaps I misunderstood. I’ve been taking oxycodone every few hours for a lot of hours now.