Eh, it looks like we're becoming the New Hippies or the New New Age. The "sons of Bayes and 4chan" instead of "the sons of Marx and Coca-Cola". Lots of theorizing, lots of self-improvement and wisdom-generation, some of which is quite genuine, lots of mutual reassuring that it's the rest of the world that's insane and of breaking free of oppressive conventions... but under all the foam surprisingly little is actually getting done, apparently.
However, humanity might look back on us forty years from now and say: "those guys were pretty awesome, they were so avant la lettre, of course, the stuff they thought was so mindblowing is commonplace now, and lots of what they did was pointless flailing, but we still owe them a lot".
Perhaps I am being overly optimistic. At least we're having awesome fun together whenever we meet up. It's something.
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.