I’m a big fan of this series and voted for all of its posts for the 2024 best-of list. I think Joe is unusually good at understanding and conveying both sides of a debate, and I learned a lot from reading and pondering his takes.
I’ve read many of the posts in this series multiple times over the past 2 years since they came out, and I bring them up in conversation on occasion (example).
For what it’s worth, I tend to be in agreement with the things the series argues for directly, while disagreeing with some of the “anti-Yudkowsky” messages that the series indirectly hints at (and that others have read into it), basically the connotation that we should concretely do something about the ASI x-risk problem which is generally along the lines of niceness / boundaries / etc. (My takes tend to be more like: “Well yeah that would be nice, but no such viable plan exists”.)
I’m a big fan of this series and voted for all of its posts for the 2024 best-of list. I think Joe is unusually good at understanding and conveying both sides of a debate, and I learned a lot from reading and pondering his takes.
I’ve read many of the posts in this series multiple times over the past 2 years since they came out, and I bring them up in conversation on occasion (example).
For what it’s worth, I tend to be in agreement with the things the series argues for directly, while disagreeing with some of the “anti-Yudkowsky” messages that the series indirectly hints at (and that others have read into it), basically the connotation that we should concretely do something about the ASI x-risk problem which is generally along the lines of niceness / boundaries / etc. (My takes tend to be more like: “Well yeah that would be nice, but no such viable plan exists”.)