gwern comments on The Singularity Institute's Arrogance Problem - Less Wrong

63 Post author: lukeprog 18 January 2012 10:30PM

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Comment author: gwern 26 January 2012 04:45:52PM 1 point [-]

Yes, he's pretty unapologetic about his elitism - if you aren't already able to follow his concepts or willing to do the work so you can, you are not his audience and he doesn't care about you. Which isn't a problem with Incandescence, whose directions sound perfectly comprehensible, but is much more of an issue with TCR, which builds up an entire alternate physics.