I’m quoted in this, which does about as good a job overviewing the topic as a New York Times profile can be expected to.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-codex-rationalists.html …
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Major oversights in it as I see. First, It does not acknowledge the fact that Yudkowsky is, at heart, a complete crank. This remains, to my mind, crucial to understanding the rationalist community’s influence on the world: they’re sci-fi writers being mistaken for scientists.
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Replying to @ElSandifer @arthur_affect
I maaaaaaaay have been told a few times by people in that orbit that climate change is way less serious a problem than the coming AI explosion...
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And of course their famous “giving money to buy mosquito nets and prevent malaria is literally evil, give it to us instead” meltdown.
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The mosquito net people don't count as rationalists?
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The rationalists helped start the mosquito nets but at this point also generally believe that getting people to donate to mosquito nets is "milk before meat" (actual phrasing)
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I have no idea who you are or how much trust to have in you say 'generally'.
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Okay, fine, do your own research Just ask yourself why none of even the biggest and most mainstream EA orgs ever cut their ties with MIRI when MIRI is the most obvious scam in the world to anyone who hasn't drunk the kool-aid
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