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Punoxysm comments on Open thread, Oct. 13 - Oct. 19, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Punoxysm 14 October 2014 02:19:22AM *  5 points [-]

The author admits the quote is only anecdotal, but it does seem plausible to me. EY has said stuff more dumbfounding than that.

More generally, it's just a snarky blog post. Nothing wrong with that; posts are allowed to be snarky. And there's plenty to criticize about uncritical belief in a singularity or the work MIRI does (which this post isn't doing, it's just reminding us of the existence of those criticisms via snark).