Lumifer comments on Steelmaning AI risk critiques - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 29 July 2015 02:32:38PM -1 points [-]

Let me point out the blatant hubris:

Let us see if we actually have significant differences of opinion. If so I expect to dominate you in any prediction market or bets concerning the near term future of AI.

and rudeness

or stop wasting my time

No one has any obligation to manage your time. If you want to stop wasting your time, you stop wasting your time.

Comment author: jacob_cannell 29 July 2015 03:24:41PM 2 points [-]

Hubris - perhaps, but it was a challenge. Making predictions/bets can help clarify differences in world models.

and rudeness

The full quote was this:

Update, or provide counter evidence, or stop wasting my time.

In the context that he had just claimed that he wasn't going to update.