$50 won’t even get you in to talk to Norris. (Wouldn’t do it even at his old charity martial arts things.) Maybe not Eliezer either. Norris is kept pretty darn busy in part due to his memetic status.
On the other hand, EY might accept because if he won such a bet, it would bring tremendous visibility to him, SIAI, and uFAI-related concepts among the wider public.
Eliezer Yudkowsky can make Chuck Norris shave his beard off by using text-only communication
(stolen from here)
Now I’m too curious whether this would actually be true. Would the two of them test this if I paid them $50 each (plus an extra $10 for the winner)?
$50 won’t even get you in to talk to Norris. (Wouldn’t do it even at his old charity martial arts things.) Maybe not Eliezer either. Norris is kept pretty darn busy in part due to his memetic status.
On the other hand, EY might accept because if he won such a bet, it would bring tremendous visibility to him, SIAI, and uFAI-related concepts among the wider public.
Well, I’d increase those figures by a few orders of magnitude … if I had a few orders of magnitudes more money than I do now. :-)