Eliezer’s priority has gradually shifted over the last 5 years or so from increasing his own knowledge to transmitting what he knows to others, which is exactly the behavior I would expect from someone with his stated goals who knows what he is doing.
Yes, he has suggested or implied many times that he expects to implement the intelligence explosion more or less by himself (and I do not like that) but ever since the Summer of AI his actions (particularly all the effort he has put into blogging and his references to 15-to-18-year-olds, which suggests that he has thought about the most effective audience to target with his blogging) strongly indicate that he understands that the best way for him to assist the singularitarian project at this time is to transmit what he knows to other.
The blog is exactly the choice of means of transmission of scientific knowledge I would expect from someone who knows what he is doing. Surely we can look past the fact the some crusty academics look down on the blog.
I know of no one who has been more effective than Eliezer over the last 8 years or so at transmitting knowledge to people with a high aptitude for math and science.
And the suggestion that Eliezer lacks discipline strikes me as extremely unlikely. Just because a person is extremely intelligent does not mean that it is easy for the person to acquire knowledge at the rate Eliezer has acquired knowledge or to become so effective at transmitting knowledge.
I disagree with the last 2 comments.
Eliezer’s priority has gradually shifted over the last 5 years or so from increasing his own knowledge to transmitting what he knows to others, which is exactly the behavior I would expect from someone with his stated goals who knows what he is doing.
Yes, he has suggested or implied many times that he expects to implement the intelligence explosion more or less by himself (and I do not like that) but ever since the Summer of AI his actions (particularly all the effort he has put into blogging and his references to 15-to-18-year-olds, which suggests that he has thought about the most effective audience to target with his blogging) strongly indicate that he understands that the best way for him to assist the singularitarian project at this time is to transmit what he knows to other.
The blog is exactly the choice of means of transmission of scientific knowledge I would expect from someone who knows what he is doing. Surely we can look past the fact the some crusty academics look down on the blog.
I know of no one who has been more effective than Eliezer over the last 8 years or so at transmitting knowledge to people with a high aptitude for math and science.
And the suggestion that Eliezer lacks discipline strikes me as extremely unlikely. Just because a person is extremely intelligent does not mean that it is easy for the person to acquire knowledge at the rate Eliezer has acquired knowledge or to become so effective at transmitting knowledge.