My comment isn't about Yudkowsky in particular since I don't know him, but I'm getting really tired of this relatively new phenomenon in America of home schooled religious devotees attempting to impose their half-baked views on the rest of us.
It seemed to me that his ideas, which I think are all correct, straightforwardly implied the destruction of all things, with very little hope.
I bite that bullet, and I always have.
Over the years, Eliezer has lost all hope, and things have happened much faster than either of us thought they would, and now he's making one final roll of the dice, burning his reputation by saying out loud what he thinks, in the hope that someone might listen.
I'd be very surprised if he thinks this will work. He's trying to get a warning out to the general population, in spite of this meaning that no one inside AI will ever trust him again. He thinks it no longer matters.
Me too.
I wonder if we'll have more mass suicides, like the Nike wearing techies following Marshall Applewhite, by those who fear it's hopeless to resist AI?
Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization | Lex Fridman Podcast #368
https://www.google.com/search?q=peter+thiel+religious+belief...
Like lol what exactly are you expecting here ? Why should that be some special announcement call you have to make with every article instead of the myriad of things that may influence a person's opinions ?
If you don't like listening to the opinion of religious people then say that and get this over with. and nobody is imposing anything on you here.
Evaluate what people are saying on what they are saying. If someone being religious (or insert anything here because lots of things influence opinions) would change your stance completely on something you already agree on then well there's a word for that and i think you can figure it out.