this year's "hmm, actually this is bad" post: Eliezer Yudkowsky Is Frequently, Confidently, Egregiously Wrong
this year's "hmm, actually this is bad" post: Eliezer Yudkowsky Is Frequently, Confidently, Egregiously Wrong
Introduction > “After many years, I came to the conclusion that everything he says is false. . . . “He will lie just for the fun of it. Every one of…
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At the risk of being NSFW.
When I met Yud some years ago, I asked him how he goes about learning new things, his answer was roughly: "Scroll on Facebook until I find someone who has written about it." Maybe he actually read some of the sources he references a long time ago but I think he gave up on learning new things and has sat comfortably abusing his power over the community.
Egads these people are gross.
ah, this is the same storied research mechanism my mom used to get into David Icke and telephone psychics
Good lord I can't imagine learning about things on Facebook.