Desrtopa comments on Above-Average AI Scientists - Less Wrong

21 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 September 2008 11:04AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (96)

Sort By: Old

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Desrtopa 01 June 2013 11:11:40PM *  3 points [-]

That's what "AIDS denier" generally means.

Keep in mind that more intelligent people are more likely to be clever arguers than unintelligent people, so their non-mainstream views will tend to sound more convincing. How convincing an intelligent person sounds when discussing a conspiracy theory on their own, without feedback from another intelligent person informed on the mainstream contrary position, is not a good way to judge their plausibility.

Ben Goldacre of Bad Science has addressed AIDS denialism, most prominently in his book, which I'd recommend checking out if you're interested in this particular issue.