LOL, yes, that's why it weights little. But, see, it still gets to considerably shift one's expectations on the matter because it had a very low probability assigned to its happening, as per Conservation Of Expected Evidence. Let's just say it counts as Rational Evidence, m'kay? Its merit is mostly to open places in Idea Space.
Eliezer Yudkowsky likes playing role-playing games where they act as a superintelligence, and then boast about how smart he is afterwards
Honestly, so do I. Have you ever played Genius The Transgression? Look, we all know he's full of himself, he has acknowledged this himself, it's a flaw of his, but it's really really irrelevant to the quality of the experiment as evidence.
Where it does matter is that that trait and his militant, sneering, condescending atheism makes for awful, godawful PR. Nevertheless, I've heard he is working on that, and in his rationality book he will try to use less incendiary examples than in his posts here. Still, don't expect it to go away too soon: he strikes me the sort of man who runs largely on pride and idealism and burning shounen passion: such an attitude naturally leads to some intellectual boisterousness: the expression of these symptoms can be toned down, but as long as the cause remains, they will show up every now and then. And if that cause is also what keeps him rollin', I wouldn't have it any other way.
LOL, yes, that's why it weights little. But, see, it still gets to considerably shift one's expectations on the matter because it had a very low probability assigned to its happening, as per Conservation Of Expected Evidence. Let's just say it counts as Rational Evidence, m'kay?
Not m'kay. IIRC, it was complete junk science - an unrecorded, unverified role playing game with no witnesses.
I figure people should update about as much as they would if they were watching a Derren Brown show.
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.