Please don't downvote the hell out of me, I'm just trying to create a future reference for this sort of annoyance.
It is actually very important. He is a figurehead when it comes to risks from AI. As to better be able to estimate the claims made by him, including the capability of the SIAI to mitigate risks from AI, we need to know if he is either one hell of an entrepreneur or a really good mathematician. Or else, if other people who work for the SIAI are sufficiently independent of his influence.
Yeah, but given how easy it is to collect karma points simply by praising him even without substantiating the praise (yes, I have indulged in "karma whoring" once or twice), I was afraid of the backlash.
A recurring theme here seems to be "grandiose plans, left unfinished". I really hope this doesn't happen with this project. The worst part is, I really understand the motivations behind those "castles in the sky" and... bah, that's for another thread.
Basically this: "Eliezer Yudkowsky writes and pretends he's an AI researcher but probably hasn't written so much as an Eliza bot."
While the Eliezer S. Yudkowsky site has lots of divulgation articles and his work on rationality is of indisputable value, I find myself at a loss when I want to respond to this. Which frustrates me very much.
So, to avoid this sort of situation in the future, I have to ask: What did the man, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, actually accomplish in his own field?
Please don't downvote the hell out of me, I'm just trying to create a future reference for this sort of annoyance.