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Solvent comments on The Singularity Institute's Arrogance Problem - Less Wrong Discussion

63 Post author: lukeprog 18 January 2012 10:30PM

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Comment author: Solvent 19 January 2012 11:18:53AM 0 points [-]

In short, as you yourself noted, you lack a Tim Ferriss. Even for technical skills, there isn't much I can point at and say, "holy shit, this is amazing and original, I wanna learn how to do that, have all my monies!".

Eliezer is pretty amazing. He's written some brilliant fiction, and some amazing stuff in the Sequences, plus CFAI, CEV, and TDT.