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Maybe it's because his brain is so large that my mirror neurons have to fire three times faster to compensate, but I always get so frustrated when watching Eliezer discussing things with non-SIAI people. It's almost kinda painful to watch, because even though I wish someone would come along and pwn Eliezer in an argument, it never ever happens because everyone is more wrong than him, and I have to sit there and listen to them fail in such predictably irrational ways. Seriously, Eliezer is smart, but there have to be some academics out there that can point to at least one piece of Eliezer's fortress of beliefs and find a potentially weak spot. Right? Do you know how epistemically distressing it is to have learned half the things you know from one person who keeps on getting proven right? That's not supposed to happen! Grarghhhhhh. (Runs off to read the Two Cult Koans.) (Remembers Eliezer wrote those, too.) (God dammit.)
(And as long as I'm being cultish, HOW DEAR PEOPLE CALL OUR FEARLESS LEADER 'YUDKOWSKI'?!?!??!? IT COMPLETELY RUINS THE SYMMETRY OF THE ETERNAL DOUBLE 'Y'S! AHHH! But seriously, it kinda annoys me in a way that most trolling doesn't.)
There's not much he could be proven wrong about. What EY mainly accomplished is to put the right pieces, that have already been out there before him, together and create a coherent framework.
But since I've only read maybe 5% of LW I might be wrong. Is there something unique that stems from EY?
Another problem is that what EY is saying is sufficiently vague so that you cannot argue with it if you do not doubt some fundamental attributes of reality.
I'm not trying to discredit EY. I actually don't know of any other person that comes even close to his mesh of beliefs. To the extent that I'm much more relaxed since I know about him for that if I was going to die there's everything and much more I ever came up with contained inside EY' mind :-)
Anyway, I can't help and often muse about the possibility that EY is so much smarter that he actually created the biggest scam ever around the likelihood of uFAI to live of donations by a bunch of nonconformists. - "Let's do what the Raelians do! Let's add some nonsense to this meme!"
Of course I'm joking, hail to the king! :-)