There are many problems with LessWrong culture, in general:
- They have wrong views about utilitarianism.
- They have wrong views about Newcomb’s problem.
- They have wrong views about philosophy-of-mind.
- They have wrong views about probability theory.
- They have wrong views about ontology and religion.
There are also many problems with Eliezer Yudkowsky, in particular, aside from sharing the above:
- He was wrong about a variety of things that were central to his famous sequences of blog posts, such as heuristics and biases, etc.
- He was dismissive of academic philosophy.
- He claimed that (it seemed to him that) “telegrams were the optimal level of social communication technology, and society began to disintegrate after voice radio was invented, though not to the same extent as it began to collapse after television.”
Now, to be fair, aren’t there also some things that they are right about, or valuable thoughts that they have?
No, there aren’t any, as far as I know.
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