Perhaps you are confusing a lack of preparation with a lack of good ideas.
The AI space will ultimately be dominated by people who know how to train models, process data, write senior-level code, consistently produce research papers, and understand the underlying technical details behind current models at the software level, because those are the people who can communicate ideas with clarity and pragmatism and command respect from their peers and the average joe. Ask yourself whether you truly believe Yudkowsky is capable of any of these things. To my knowledge he hasn’t demonstrated any of this, he has produced at most a few research papers in his lifetime and has no public-facing code. So maybe the problem is not a lack of preparation.
Perhaps you are confusing a lack of preparation with a lack of good ideas.
The AI space will ultimately be dominated by people who know how to train models, process data, write senior-level code, consistently produce research papers, and understand the underlying technical details behind current models at the software level, because those are the people who can communicate ideas with clarity and pragmatism and command respect from their peers and the average joe. Ask yourself whether you truly believe Yudkowsky is capable of any of these things. To my knowledge he hasn’t demonstrated any of this, he has produced at most a few research papers in his lifetime and has no public-facing code. So maybe the problem is not a lack of preparation.