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Looks great!
I may be alone in this, and I haven't mentioned this before because it's a bit of a delicate subject. I assume we all agree that first impressions matter a great deal, and that appearances play a large role in that. I think that, how to say this, ehm, it would, perhaps, be in the best interest of all of us, if you could use photos that don't make the AI thinkers give off this serial killer vibe.
Here's my $0.02 on that page: Bostrom looks like he suspects you of something. Goetzel looks smug but ok. Hanson looks evil. Shulman looks fine, but getting rid of his red eye would take about 2 minutes in iPhoto. Chalmers looks like a hobo, but not scary. Hall, Salamon, and Yudkowsky look fine.
He has so much mischief to do, he hasn't had time to become a master of disguise too.
He of all people should know the importance of signalling non-evilness.
Chalmers always looks like a hobo.
Eleizer's eyes seem oddly asymmetrical, which unsettles me.
Chalmers looks like that in person, its not the photo/
And I for one hope that picture never gets replaced with something more bland.
(Responding to an old comment but ...)
Wow. Judging by these pictures, and these pictures alone ...
Nick Bostrom is serious business.
Ben Goertzel is leather with a side of JPEG compression.
Robin Hanson is plotting something fiendish.
(And the backdrop for Robin's picture says "school pictures day".)
Carl Shulman isn't working; he's at a party with girls.
David Chalmers is on his yacht, the wind romantically blowing his hair.
(And you could be there at his side ...)
J. Storrs Hall is a math professor.
Anna Salamon is a perpetual student.
Eliezer is trying to extrapolate your utility function from a careful examination of your microexpressions.
I believe the term is "crucial considerations".
Yeah, Anna's happy smile and Eliezer's piercing gaze sure make you think about the number of skeletons in their SIAI closet.
Anna looks like an ad for salad and Eliezer looks like a golden retriever puppy. However, Robin looks like he wants to negotiate about who should wear your skin.
Robin's pic doesn't give me that vibe at all. Chalmers and Hall on the other hand...
Robin's photo reminds me of that of The Captain from How I Met Your Mother, in that the top half (eyes) is clearly angry and the bottom half (mouth) is clearly smiling -- try covering half of the picture and you'll see what I mean.
The first descriptor that comes to mind is "diabolical."