Not in absolute terms, no. But in relative terms, people are demanding that I supply evidence to support my guess, but not demanding the same from you.
Maybe I need to say explicitly that when I say that it’s “possible” to be both an AI researcher and what I take Eliezer to have meant by an idiot, I don’t merely mean that it’s not a logical impossibility, or that it’s not precluded by the laws of physics; I mean that, alas, foolishness is to be found pretty much everywhere, and it’s not tremendously unlikely that a given AI researcher is (in the relevant sense) an idiot.
Which , again, is just to say that the apparent ad hom was possibly true, which, again , is an excuse you could make for anything. Maybe Smith whom Brown has accused of being a wife beater, actually is a wife beater.
Not in absolute terms, no. But in relative terms, people are demanding that I supply evidence to support my guess, but not demanding the same from you.
Which , again, is just to say that the apparent ad hom was possibly true, which, again , is an excuse you could make for anything. Maybe Smith whom Brown has accused of being a wife beater, actually is a wife beater.