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Comment author: Manfred 19 April 2012 06:15:37PM 7 points [-]

On quantum mechanics: the many-worlds interpretation probably shouldn't be referred to as "his" interpretation (around before he was born, etc.), and there's been some experimental work defending it (for example, entangling 10^4 particles and not seeing a certain kind of collapse), bit it's not very strong evidence.

He also made a lot of super-wrong plans/predictions over a decade ago. But on the other hand, that was a while ago.

Comment author: perpetualpeace1 19 April 2012 06:25:42PM 3 points [-]

For the record, what were those predictions? What are your sources?

Comment author: alex_zag_al 19 April 2012 11:30:35PM 5 points [-]

in case you haven't seen it, a quote from the homepage of is website, yudkowsky.net:

My parents were early adopters, and I’ve been online since a rather young age. You should regard anything from 2001 or earlier as having been written by a different person who also happens to be named “Eliezer Yudkowsky”. I do not share his opinions.

Comment author: bramflakes 19 April 2012 06:38:01PM 5 points [-]

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Yudkowsky%27s_coming_of_age

Comment author: Manfred 19 April 2012 06:52:47PM 4 points [-]

Well, what bramflakes said, and also the highly overconfident (see: conjunction fallacy, among others) "plan to singularity": http://yudkowsky.net/obsolete/plan.html .

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