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I agree with your overall characterization of the post, but on the specific concrete claim: one of the commenters there cites this article as saying this:
which I think is close enough to DC's claim. I have no way of telling how accurately that article represents EY's position or whether the quotation itself is accurate. Here's EY characterizing another statement in that article as a lie (though for what it's worth I think it can be interpreted consistently with what EY says is the truth -- but of course that doesn't mean it wasn't intended to mislead).
Okay, I've updated somewhat in the direction that Eliezer actually said that at one point. (I was previously assuming that it was a mash-up of other things he's said, but those things were all Sequences-or-later and this article is pre-Sequences.)
With the other statement,
It seems important to note that Eliezer was talking about a program unlike any pr... (read more)