Yeah I think that's the posters point, "AI ethics" isn't "AGI risk", and I'll add A) Eliezer isn't a "high priest" he's just a guy, B) he plays a character and

Yeah I think that's the posters point, "AI ethics" isn't "AGI risk", and I'll add A) Eliezer isn't a "high priest" he's just a guy, B) he plays a character and knows it. You'd be surprised how much you can advance in life just by avoiding talking or thinking about other people too much, much less grouping them. It's a fundamental part of our animal brains and it's gotten oh-so-much worse as we migrated to the internet. And it leads to epistemic closure. n.b. I think the AGI risk stuff is bunko and the original AI ethics cheerleaders ruined their own field. You don't need to agree to understand