alt Hacker NewsI mean if doesn't help that Eliezer Yudkowsky spent the first decade of his public life zealously spreading the gospel of the AI singularity as the solution to all mankind's problems. And then later did a 180 degree pivot to AI singularity as the apocalypse with equal zeal and certainty.
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apsec112 • today at 12:30 AM
I don't think "he did a big 180 on some of his views at age 22" is very persuasive criticism of someone who is 46 (whatever he might be wrong about)
One could use his flip flop to invalidate his new position. But one of those two positions is true. And if they guy who spent the most energy on position 1 changes his mind, that is worth paying attention to. His second position is likely a more informed, and true, position.