“eLiEzEr iS jUsT tRyInG tO mAkE mOnEy”
Actually, donors already put up $$$ specifically to prevent financial pressures reducing his ability to update his views correctly.
You may need some of these donors too, so you can avoid the accusation of profiting from increasing P(doom)!
There's certainly an uncomfortable notion that monetized commentating on bad things incentivises more of the bad things to occur. Thoughts?
Infrastructure Capital Advisors Expands its Offerings into European Markets With Launch of Preferred Income UCITS ETF (PFFI) & Declares The Fund’s First Dividend
I'm not saying yud or you you're completely wrong. I just don't like the performative vibe you emanate. It seems like many doomers constantly need to reassure themselves and others that they are the brightest ones in the room.
Unfortunately Eliezer is not motivated by money, but by the power his position gives him to sexually exploit autistic women employed by Miri.
Money could buy him prostitutes, but he needs the illusion it's non-transactional.
I think the critic steelman would be “although this is the stated intention, it’s pretty obviously contingent on his current viewpoints, which are what got the donor’s attention.
If he actually 180’d his current views, it’s overwhelmingly likely support would dry up”.
The trouble with yud (and the rest of the doomers) is that they're not separating "building an angry God would be bad" which is obviously true but the argument fits on an index card, with "current research leads to an angry God" which is not at all obviously true.
Nah he is just evil and ignorant. Thiel was right to say he's herald of Antichrist, as world government. World government would 100% be evil and world will be horrible if it's installed. ASI has decent chance of being good.
