15 years ago, he was a Singularitarian, and not only that but actually working in some halfway decent AI dev research sometimes (albiet one who still encouraged Roko’s general blithering). Now he is the face of an AIpocalypse cult.
Is there a… specific promoting event for his collapse into despair? Or did he just become so saturated in his belief in the absolute primacy of the Rational Human Mind that he assumed that any superintelligence would have to pass through a stage where it thought exactly like he did and got scared of what he would do if he could make his brain superhuge?
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No, he was never working in halfway decent AI research.
What happened is that he is not successful at his silly “AI alignment” nonsense and he’s therefore worried that the rapid progress of AI means the acausal robot god will arrive before he’s made it safe and therefore we will all die.
Currently theres more grift opportunities in doomerism than hopium.
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He was an idiot 15 years ago, too.
No he was always like this.
The difference is that the AI he was planning for and researching for now exists and his research didn’t help with any of it, and so he’s convinced that since the whole purpose of his AI research was to steer future AI development safety, that he’s failed and the end times have come.
Leader of a doomsday cult found his 2012, comet or senator’s visit.
Yudkowsky did some actual math, but at a paralysingly slow pace. mostly he recruited better mathematicians, who also worked at a paralysingly slow pace.
He’s extremely annoying and not that smart