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Viliam_Bur comments on Downvote stalkers: Driving members away from the LessWrong community? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: XiXiDu 03 July 2014 11:58:33AM 3 points [-]

Given that you directly caused a fair portion of the thing that is causing him pain (i.e., spreading FUD about him, his orgs, and etc.), this is like a win for you, right?

A win would be if certain people became a little less confident about the extraordinary claims he makes, and more skeptical of the mindset that CFAR spreads.

A win would be if he became more focused on exploration rather than exploitation, on increasing the robustness of his claims, rather than on taking actions in accordance with his claims.

A world in which I don't criticize MIRI is a world where they ask for money in order to research whether artificial intelligence is an existential risk, rather than asking for money to research a specific solution in order to save an intergalactic civilization.

A world in which I don't criticize Yudkowsky is a world in which he does not make claims such as that if you don’t sign up your kids for cryonics then you are a lousy parent.

A world in which I don't criticize CFAR/LW is a world in which they teach people to be extremely skeptical of back-of-the-envelope calculations, a world in which they tell people to strongly discount claims that cannot be readily tested.

Why don't you leave armchair Internet psychoanalysis to experts?

I speculate that Yudkowsky has narcissistic tendencies. Call it armchair psychoanalysis if you like, but I think there is enough evidence to warrant such speculations.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 04 July 2014 07:21:31AM 0 points [-]

more skeptical of the mindset that CFAR spreads

Just curious: what else do you consider the big problems of CFAR (other than being associated with MIRI)?