Because he’s got more important things to do with his life, like reducing “the chance of us all dying, conditional on somebody building a powerful AI”.
I wouldn’t be here, interested in AI research, if it weren’t for reading that book as a child. You need a very good argument to refute results, and “revealed preferences” (which, tangentially, is a ludicrous idea) based on Eliezer having written one fanfic is not even a mediocre argument.
He’s written a bunch of things subsequent to HPMOR, including Inadequte Equilibria, which isn’t about AI, and A Girl Incorrupted, which isn’t about AI and was in parallel with the failed Arbital project, which wasn’t about AI.
If it is any consolation, I remember reading a post or an Author’s Note from EY, saying he won’t be publishing any new fiction for fear of reputational losses.
There is more to productivity than not engaging in pleasurable hobbies. I am willing to extend EY the benefit of the doubt and believe he has done some cost/benefit analysis regarding his time management.
In any case, the point is mute—he is not publishing fiction anymore.
I have but one reply, which is “If you’re so smart, why ain’cha rich?”
Because he’s got more important things to do with his life, like reducing “the chance of us all dying, conditional on somebody building a powerful AI”.
By revealed preferences, the more important thing is writing fanfic.
I wouldn’t be here, interested in AI research, if it weren’t for reading that book as a child. You need a very good argument to refute results, and “revealed preferences” (which, tangentially, is a ludicrous idea) based on Eliezer having written one fanfic is not even a mediocre argument.
He’s written a bunch of things subsequent to HPMOR, including Inadequte Equilibria, which isn’t about AI, and A Girl Incorrupted, which isn’t about AI and was in parallel with the failed Arbital project, which wasn’t about AI.
If it is any consolation, I remember reading a post or an Author’s Note from EY, saying he won’t be publishing any new fiction for fear of reputational losses.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
It’s not writing fanfic that’s the problem, it’s not doing other things.
There is more to productivity than not engaging in pleasurable hobbies. I am willing to extend EY the benefit of the doubt and believe he has done some cost/benefit analysis regarding his time management.
In any case, the point is mute—he is not publishing fiction anymore.