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To those who think Eliezer is exaggerating: please link me to "informed criticism of SIAI."
It is so hard to find good critics.
Edit: Well, I guess there are more than two examples, though relatively few. I was wrong to suggest otherwise. Much of this has to do with the fact that SI hasn't been very clear about many of its positions and arguments: see Beckstead's comment and Hallquist's followup.
1) Most criticism of key ideas underlying SIAI's strategies does not reference SIAI, e.g. Chris Malcolm's "Why Robots Won't Rule" website is replying to Hans Moravec.
2) Dispersed criticism, with many people making local points, e.g. those referenced by Wei Dai, is still criticism and much of that is informed and reasonable.
3) Much criticism is unwritten, e.g. consider the more FAI-skeptical Singularity Summit speaker talks, or takes the form of brief responses to questions or the like. This doesn't mean it isn't real or important.
4) Gerrymandering the bounds of "informed criticism" to leave almost no one within bounds is in general a scurrilous move that one should bend over backwards to avoid.
5) As others have suggested, even within the narrow confines of Less Wrong and adjacent communities there have been many informed critics. Here's Katja Grace's criticism of hard takeoff (although I am not sure how separate it is from Robin's). Here's Brandon Reinhart's examination of SIAI, which includes some criticism and brings more in comments. Here's Kaj Sotala's comparison of FHI and SIAI. And there are of course many detailed and often highly upvoted comments in response to various SIAI-discussing posts and threads, many of which you have participated in.