Yeah he was ridiculously overconfident about the Yudkowsky-Bostrom paradigm in that video, and judging from the comments it just turned people off. Maybe his stuff works on people who identify emotionally with LW memes and feel affirmed when overconfidently endorses them?
He is extremely charismatic and confident and seems to accidentally produce cultishness around him wherever he goes.
Unimportant. He is not community famous for his ideas, but for his personality and “reality distortion field”.
But he believes that Hanlon’s Razor is nigh-universally false and the public sphere of discourse is a Hobbesian war of all against all.
What makes him charismatic in person? In his youtube videos he’s extremely uncharismatic, inarticulate, and even difficult to understand...
Here’s a good example
I met him once and didn’t feel much charisma, he just sounded overconfident about all things. I’m sure it works on some people though.
Yeah he was ridiculously overconfident about the Yudkowsky-Bostrom paradigm in that video, and judging from the comments it just turned people off. Maybe his stuff works on people who identify emotionally with LW memes and feel affirmed when overconfidently endorses them?
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