Eighteen months ago Eliezer Yudkowsky died while leading a strike force to take out a possible uFAI built with laptops and vacuum tubes in a Gaza strip tent city. Fearing panic and a dangerous dip in fund-raising SIAI commissioned Dr. Eldon Tyrell to build a robot simulacrum of Eliezer to give speeches, appear at public functions, and write Harry Potter fan-fiction. Less Wrong is now run by a shadowy cabal of necromancers who, some say, have an affinity for frequentism.
Eighteen months ago Eliezer Yudkowsky died while leading a strike force to take out a possible uFAI built with laptops and vacuum tubes in a Gaza strip tent city. Fearing panic and a dangerous dip in fund-raising SIAI commissioned Dr. Eldon Tyrell to build a robot simulacrum of Eliezer to give speeches, appear at public functions, and write Harry Potter fan-fiction. Less Wrong is now run by a shadowy cabal of necromancers who, some say, have an affinity for frequentism.
That’s what I figured happened, but I didn’t have any evidence until now.
So THAT’s why the sequences stopped back in 2009… it all makes sense now.