[astrange]

The post, which calls Eliezer a "prophet" who says people should drop everything in their lives to work on AI safety, agrees with me.

> Present a counterargument if you feel strongly about it, and see whether that will stand on its own merit.

This is a bad way to talk to rationalists because it's what they think solves everything and is the reason they're convinced an AI is going to enslave them. As long as you're actually right, saying "no that's dumb and not worth worrying about" is superior to logical arguments about things you can't have logical arguments about (because there are unenumerable "unknown unknowns" in the future). This is called "metarationality".

e.g. Someone could decide to kill you because they don't like one of your posts (1). Is there any finite amount of work you could do to stop this? No (2). Should you worry about this? No (3).

You can't logically prove the 2->3 step, nor can you calculate the probability of it being a problem, but it still doesn't seem to be a problem.