Why shouldn't people get extract useful knowledge from his shows?
Well, go right ahead - if you have not encountered this sort of thing before.
Er. Hmmm... Look, I don't want to sound rude, but could you elaborate on that? As it is, your post provides me with no information at all, except for the fact that you seem to think it's a bad idea...
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.