[adroniser]

This constant ad hom bickering is exactly what's gonna get us killed. Yes most autistic people are arrogant, they also tend to be good at predicting don't look up style scenarios where you need to step outside societal consensus.

[dragonwriter]

> they also tend to be good at predicting don't look up style scenarios where you need to step outside societal consensus.

[citation needed]

Note, relevantly, that “less likely to miss” is not necessarily “good at predicting”, particularly, the key to trust here would be “unlikely to falsely predict” not “less likely to miss”.

[progrus]

How about the don’t-look-up scenario where this irrational paranoia metastasizes into yet more real-world authoritarianism, and it all boils over in a global war?

[dragonwriter]

“Metastasizes”? It starts out (well, in Yudkowsky's case, specifically) as a call for global authoritarianism and unlimited use of force against any opposition.

[progrus]

Right, the “nuclear war is worth it” argument. Paranoid Machiavellian nonsense.