@perrymetzger - It's starting to look like the worst thing Eliezer

Perry E. Metzger
Perry E. Metzger@perrymetzger
2025-09-10
It's starting to look like the worst thing Eliezer Yudkowsky ever did for his cause was actually write down all his arguments in a form compact enough that a normal person could read them in a few days. Before, the arguments were scattered all over tens of thousands of pages of really wordy blog posts, and only extremely dedicated people could bother to go through them. In truth, the whole thing could be summarized in a few pages, but now that he's at least condensed it down to 256 pages which normies might consider reading. If they read it, though, they learn that the argument isn't at all persuasive. You get people like the New York Times reviewer saying "The book reads like a Scientology manual, the text interspersed with weird, unhelpful parables and extra notes available via QR codes."
Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD@DrTechlash2025-09-09
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