He is definitely a journalist, especially in the original sense, publishing his thoughts with considerable regularity on his blog. And he's quite good at it. Y

He is definitely a journalist, especially in the original sense, publishing his thoughts with considerable regularity on his blog. And he's quite good at it. You need merely have flipped to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Eliezer_Yudkowsky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Eliezer_Yudkowsky to encounter discussion of Yudkowsky's qualifications and the Wikipedia post in general. If he says he's an AI researcher then I accept that. But he's also a journalist, a good one, and that's the face that I see presented most.