Please Be Serious
Recently, Eliezer Yudkowsky participated in a very flawed podcast of Doom Debates that reflected poorly on him, and, likely to many people, the entire AI safety movement. The premise of the debate was that Eliezer Yudkowsky was offered 10,000$ to debate an anonymous "AI lab director", and this director quickly made the debate into a mess by interrupting, yelling, and using profanity. Sure, Yudkowsky may have come across as sane in comparison, but his opponent did make one critical point during the debate: Yudkowsky's agreeing to debate him in the first place may have been a mistake. To analyz…
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