I am a carbon-based biped.
I have some genuine puzzlement as to what is causing people like Steven Pinker to write an article refuting straw arguments, an angry and dismissive essay whose logic could be torn down in 30 seconds. What's going on? Why is this happening?https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/963950456409088000 …
I think it’s because he has established an identity for himself as an optimist, which is valuable in a variety of areas...but definitely not in the realm of the control problem.
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This is also my current best guess for the biggest factor. I think Pinker just had an optimism paint brushed, and painted the value alignment problem with it before taking a hard enough look at the best arguments.
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