Stuart_Armstrong comments on General purpose intelligence: arguing the Orthogonality thesis - Less Wrong
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Why not argue for this directly, instead of making a much stronger claim ("may not" vs "very unlikely")? If you make a claim that's too strong, that might lead people to dismiss you instead of thinking that a weaker version of the claim could still be valid. Or they could notice holes in your claimed position and be too busy trying to think of attacks to have the thoughts that you're hoping for.
(But take this advice with a big grain of salt since I have little idea how academic philosophy works in practice.)
I'm not an expert on academic philosophy either. But I feel the stronger claim might work better; I'll try and hammer the point "efficiency is not rationality" again and again.