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by psyc 1538 days ago
You keep hammering on with the same lazy slander. Yudkowsky was well known long before he wrote the popular Harry Potter fanfic, which incidentally is pedagogical / allegorical. Because his main roles are teacher and philosopher, and philosophers do that.

Here's a sampling of his non-fiction writing:

https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/sequences

https://intelligence.org/files/EthicsofAI.pdf

https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05060

https://intelligence.org/files/AlignmentMachineLearning.pdf

https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5577

https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5577

https://intelligence.org/files/Corrigibility.pdf

https://intelligence.org/files/DefinabilityTruthDraft.pdf

https://intelligence.org/files/IEM.pdf

https://intelligence.org/files/TilingAgentsDraft.pdf

But you'll just say there's nothing of value there, and it's somehow figuratively "fan fiction", because he didn't go to college, and he doesn't work much on ML, which is clearly the end-all of AI.