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You keep hammering on with the same lazy slander. Yudkowsky was well known long before he wrote the popular Harry Potter fanfic, which incidentally is pedagogic
by psyc 5y ago
You keep hammering on with the same lazy slander. Yudkowsky was well known long before he wrote the popular Harry Potter fanfic, which incidentally is pedagogical / allegorical. Because his main roles are teacher and philosopher, and philosophers do that.
Here's a sampling of his non-fiction writing:
https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/sequences https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/sequences
https://intelligence.org/files/EthicsofAI.pdf https://intelligence.org/files/EthicsofAI.pdf
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05060 https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05060
https://intelligence.org/files/AlignmentMachineLearning.pdf https://intelligence.org/files/AlignmentMachineLearning.pdf
https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5577 https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5577
https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5577 https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5577
https://intelligence.org/files/Corrigibility.pdf https://intelligence.org/files/Corrigibility.pdf
https://intelligence.org/files/DefinabilityTruthDraft.pdf https://intelligence.org/files/DefinabilityTruthDraft.pdf
https://intelligence.org/files/IEM.pdf https://intelligence.org/files/IEM.pdf
https://intelligence.org/files/TilingAgentsDraft.pdf https://intelligence.org/files/TilingAgentsDraft.pdf
But you'll just say there's nothing of value there, and it's somehow figuratively "fan fiction", because he didn't go to college, and he doesn't work much on ML, which is clearly the end-all of AI.