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What is a "Yuddite?" I tried Googling for it and got the impression it was LessWrong forum terminology for people who believed too strongly in LessWrong, but I couldn't find many references.

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I believe he's referring to "luddites" -- a group of people who resisted technological innovation during the industrial revolution.

Luddite but mixed with "Eliezer Yudkowsky" who is a researcher working on the problem of friendly AI (or whatever they're calling it these days). Basically trying to prevent skynet.

The GP is saying that once we have AGI, then "AGI is going to make the human race irrelevant" outweighs "AGI makes software devs irrelevant".

That’s the idea.

I am a follower of Elizier Yudkowsky.

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