Paul, can you point at anything at all other than your general vibes that would indicate that anyone from LessWrong intends to literally participate in mass suicide, as your link implies? Did I miss the big group buy of phenobarbital?
The argument “yeah but what if he’s right?” is pretty much Pascal’s Wager by now, given how way out there the AI Doomers have gotten. I choose not to worry about the God from the Bible (ie I don’t make make Pascal’s Wager) so why should I worry about this new Evil Nerd-God Apocalypse?
Don’t drink the Kool-Aid, kids!
I'm pretty sure i'm not the only one who took it seriously. Thanks! I wonder if mr LeCun made the same mistake, it's just... almost believable! Good April fools joke I gotta admit.
EDIT: it's now 5 minutes later and I'm still laughing. I believed for months that Yudkowski had started a death cult.
And more recently: https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-no...
Now their leader is saying 50% we should have bombed Wuhan and the only reason for an individual not to firebomb an AI datacenter is because they'll just build back another: https://www.twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/16414107296675962...
That was an April Fools joke! Yeah I just found out today as well (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35402472). Worked a little too well huh
I heard the death with dignity thing repeated in a Peter Thiel speech as a criticism of them.