No; Vassar and Yudkowsky haven’t been on good terms lately. I would assume he meant that the pattern of non-elites being more receptive to anti-extinction arguments also held back in the early 2010s when Vassar was leading the then-Singularity Institute, and that he thinks this has informed MIRI’s post-2022 public outreach pivot.
No; Vassar and Yudkowsky haven’t been on good terms lately. I would assume he meant that the pattern of non-elites being more receptive to anti-extinction arguments also held back in the early 2010s when Vassar was leading the then-Singularity Institute, and that he thinks this has informed MIRI’s post-2022 public outreach pivot.