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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. This was a bit late - I was too busy goofing around on Discord)
Eliezer is mad OpenPhil (EA organization, now called Coefficient Giving)... advocated for longer AI timelines? And apparently he thinks they were unfair to MIRI, or didn't weight MIRI's views highly enough? And doing so for epistemically invalid reasons? IDK, this post is a bit more of a rant and less clear than classic sequence content (but is par for the course for the last 5 years of Eliezer's content). For us sane people, AGI by 2050 is still a pretty radical timeline, it just disagrees with Eliezer's imminent belief in doom. Also, it is notable Eliezer has actually avoided publicly committing to consistent timelines (he actually disagrees with efforts like AI2027) other than a vague certainty we are near doom.
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Ah yes, they were totally secretly agreeing with your short timelines but couldn't say so publicly.
OpenPhil actually did have a belief in a pretty large possibility of near term AGI doom, it just wasn't high enough or acted on strongly enough for Eliezer!
Lol, someone noting Eliezer's call out post isn't actually doing anything useful towards Eliezer's goals.
Someone actually noting AGI hasn't happened yet and so you can't say a 2050 estimate is wrong! And they also correctly note that Eliezer has been vague on timelines (rationalists are theoretically supposed to be preregistering their predictions in formal statistical language so that they can get better at predicting and people can calculate their accuracy... but we've all seen how that went with AI 2027. My guess is that at least on a subconscious level Eliezer knows harder near term predictions would ruin the grift eventually.)
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The locker beckons
I'm a nerd and even I want to shove this guy in a locker.