I did, briefly. I ask that you not do so yourself, or anybody else outside one of the major existing organizations, because I expect that will make things worse as you annoy him and fail to phrase your arguments in any way he’d find helpful.
Other MIRI staff have also chatted with Yann. One co-worker told me that he was impressed with Yann’s clarity of thought on related topics (e.g., he has some sensible, detailed, reductionist models of AI), so I’m surprised things haven’t gone better.
I did, briefly. I ask that you not do so yourself, or anybody else outside one of the major existing organizations, because I expect that will make things worse as you annoy him and fail to phrase your arguments in any way he’d find helpful.
Other MIRI staff have also chatted with Yann. One co-worker told me that he was impressed with Yann’s clarity of thought on related topics (e.g., he has some sensible, detailed, reductionist models of AI), so I’m surprised things haven’t gone better.
Non-MIRI folks have talked to Yann too; e.g., Debate on Instrumental Convergence between LeCun, Russell, Bengio, Zador, and More.
What happened?
Nothing much.
There was also a debate between Yann and Stuart Russel on facebook, which got discussed here:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WxW6Gc6f2z3mzmqKs/debate-on-instrumental-convergence-between-lecun-russell
For a more comprehensive writeup of some stuff related to the “annoy him and fail to phrase your arguments helpfully”, see Idea Innoculation and Inferential Distance.