Most fanfiction/webnovel authors don’t run the comment section like they’re enlightening the savages with their grasp and explanation of basic game theory. Yudkowsky, however, seemed to think he was passing down wisdom as the golden god of rational thought.
As for the contempt I hold for his personal philosophy, I’m not interested in pulling out quotes from HPMoR in 2026 but I’ll say that his current thoughts on how a true AI will inevitably kill all humans for not contributing to its goals says a lot more about his personal worldview than any interesting speculation on how an artificial consciousness will see the world.
I’ll give him some credit for rejecting full bore naive utilitarianism though, even if all his other thoughts on the matter bely his true opinions on the matter.
No, he’s got his own ideas about it. For what it’s worth he thought Roko’s Basilisk and the whole time war-esque torture cube of it all was a silly extreme of his completely original thought that AI might kill us because it has different values.
Last I paid attention he was mostly interested in methods to make sure that doesn’t happen by making sure any AI shares those values at least in part.
Oh yeah, Yudkowsky is a super weird dude. I haven’t looked into what he’s been doing over the past few years, but I assume he’s gotten… more eccentric.
Most fanfiction/webnovel authors don’t run the comment section like they’re enlightening the savages with their grasp and explanation of basic game theory. Yudkowsky, however, seemed to think he was passing down wisdom as the golden god of rational thought.
As for the contempt I hold for his personal philosophy, I’m not interested in pulling out quotes from HPMoR in 2026 but I’ll say that his current thoughts on how a true AI will inevitably kill all humans for not contributing to its goals says a lot more about his personal worldview than any interesting speculation on how an artificial consciousness will see the world.
I’ll give him some credit for rejecting full bore naive utilitarianism though, even if all his other thoughts on the matter bely his true opinions on the matter.
Roko’s basilisk? That’s not in the story, but one of the ‘great’ outputs from the forum that the author created.
No, he’s got his own ideas about it. For what it’s worth he thought Roko’s Basilisk and the whole time war-esque torture cube of it all was a silly extreme of his completely original thought that AI might kill us because it has different values.
Last I paid attention he was mostly interested in methods to make sure that doesn’t happen by making sure any AI shares those values at least in part.
Oh yeah, Yudkowsky is a super weird dude. I haven’t looked into what he’s been doing over the past few years, but I assume he’s gotten… more eccentric.