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Comment author: Wei_Dai 22 July 2016 03:54:22PM 2 points [-]

Anyone else worried about Peter Thiel's support for Donald Trump discrediting Thiel in a lot of people's eyes, and MIRI and AI safety/risk research in general by association?

Comment author: Lumifer 22 July 2016 04:00:46PM 3 points [-]

Not me.

In general, I think hysterics over Trump are much overdone.

Comment author: Crux 23 July 2016 02:35:36PM 0 points [-]

What hysterics are you thinking of, specifically?

I've noticed that Sam Harris has been rather vocal about his deep concern about a possible Trump presidency, saying that it would be extremely dangerous and so on. Who else relevant to the rationality movement has been overdoing the hysterics? Or were you referring to the mainstream media?

Comment author: Lumifer 24 July 2016 08:46:41PM 0 points [-]

Oh, I was talking about general, mainstream hysterics (go look at pretty much any mass media for examples), not about anything rationality-connected.

Comment author: Crux 25 July 2016 08:21:22AM 0 points [-]

Oh okay, I see.

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