Regarding MIRI/SIAI/Yudkowsky, I think you are considerably overestimating the extent to which the early AI safety movement took any notice of research. Early MIRI obsessed about stuff like AIXI, that AI researchers didn’t care about, and based a lot of their nighmare scenarious on “genie” style reasoning derived from fairy tales.
Regarding MIRI/SIAI/Yudkowsky, I think you are considerably overestimating the extent to which the early AI safety movement took any notice of research. Early MIRI obsessed about stuff like AIXI, that AI researchers didn’t care about, and based a lot of their nighmare scenarious on “genie” style reasoning derived from fairy tales.
And the thing I said that isn’t factually correct is...
(This is arguably testable.)
The only thing factually incorrect is your implied assumption that voting has anything to do with truth assessment here ;)