I’m not quite convinced Elon Musk has actually read any one of the Sequences. I think what happened was “Superintelligence came out in 2014ish --> Musk mentioned it, WaitButWhy wrote about AI risk and also about Musk, LessWrong was the next logical place to go talk about it --> Musk cofounds OpenAI and then leaves --> … --> Eveyrone associates Musk with the rationality community, despite a serious lack of evidence beyond ‘he’s interacted with us at all’.” (NOTE: this is JUST about ratcom, NOT EA which he’s interacted more with e.g. through FLI/MacAskill)
Like, does he tweet e.g. “The map is not the territory. Very deep, we must come together this” [sic]? Does he mention HPMOR or the Sequences when asked about books he likes on podcasts?
At most, he probably goes to some of the same parties as rationalists, and thus might use a few frames/vocab terms here and there. (E.g. if you found a clip of him mentioning “calibrating” his beliefs, or even “I updated towards...”, that wouldn’t disprove my larger point, that we don’t have enough evidence for him looking at / believing / absorbing / endorsing / being affiliated with the LW-ratcom canon of stuff.)
I’d be lessmore concerned if I was wrong about this, since it’d imply that reading this stuff didn’t stop him from [gestures at list of unforced errors by Elon Musk].
I’m not quite convinced Elon Musk has actually read any one of the Sequences. I think what happened was “Superintelligence came out in 2014ish --> Musk mentioned it, WaitButWhy wrote about AI risk and also about Musk, LessWrong was the next logical place to go talk about it --> Musk cofounds OpenAI and then leaves --> … --> Eveyrone associates Musk with the rationality community, despite a serious lack of evidence beyond ‘he’s interacted with us at all’.” (NOTE: this is JUST about ratcom, NOT EA which he’s interacted more with e.g. through FLI/MacAskill)
Like, does he tweet e.g. “The map is not the territory. Very deep, we must come together this” [sic]? Does he mention HPMOR or the Sequences when asked about books he likes on podcasts?
At most, he probably goes to some of the same parties as rationalists, and thus might use a few frames/vocab terms here and there. (E.g. if you found a clip of him mentioning “calibrating” his beliefs, or even “I updated towards...”, that wouldn’t disprove my larger point, that we don’t have enough evidence for him looking at / believing / absorbing / endorsing / being affiliated with the LW-ratcom canon of stuff.)
I’d be
lessmore concerned if I was wrong about this, since it’d imply that reading this stuff didn’t stop him from [gestures at list of unforced errors by Elon Musk].