tl;dr: Yudkowsky cannot accept that the top funder of the
MIRI would be a Trump supporter and invents elaborate theories that
Thiel has a secret machiavellian plan to undermine Trump at the
convention. It couldn’t possibly be that Thiel supports Trump’s awful
views…
So, literally all of his verbiage (starting from years ago) about changing your mind and updating based on evidence and whatever, just gets thrown out of the window when it's about the reputation of the guy giving him oodles of money. Pretty distasteful. If that's the "Art of Human Rationality" that LW wants to teach me, I don't think I want it.
Of course, there's the possibility that it's just a face-saving thing and he really thinks he can deceive everyone. I mean, "He may be voting for a narcissistic idiot, but we really need his dollops of cash to stop Unfriendly AI so shut up." sounds pretty bad in PR terms. I don't quite trust Yudkowsky not to try and be 'Slytherin' if it suits him.
Simple, he sees the "libertarianism" of Peter Thiel as genuine instead of the window dressing it is for him straddling the line between alt-right and technocratic neoliberalism.
So, has he followed through or what? Or are we still in the “Haha
look how Thiel totally outSlytherined the fools by pretending to endorse
Trump at the convention” phase?
Dear non-Slytherin friends, and dear journalists who actually do know
better and are deliberately deceiving people: Peter Thiel presumably set
this up back when it looked like there would be a contested convention.
I will eat my shirt, or at least chew on it extensively, if Peter Thiel
is actually a Trumpist. The end.
EDIT: Okay, I have no idea what Peter Thiel is actually trying to do,
except that the objective doesn’t rely on Trump becoming President.
tl;dr: Yudkowsky cannot accept that the top funder of the MIRI would be a Trump supporter and invents elaborate theories that Thiel has a secret machiavellian plan to undermine Trump at the convention. It couldn’t possibly be that Thiel supports Trump’s awful views…
How is this a surprise for him at all? The real surprise would be if Thiel were not a Trumpista. The cognitive dissonance is real. Fuck silicon valley
Oh, I guess Eli is into politics. A true renaissance man.
So, has he followed through or what? Or are we still in the “Haha look how Thiel totally outSlytherined the fools by pretending to endorse Trump at the convention” phase?
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