If I'm not mistaken, he's either affiliated with or otherwise connected to the effective altruist movement, hence he can't be unbiased. I find this article tells an interesting perspective on it: https://www.noemamag.com/the-politics-of-superintelligence/
The whole rationalist movement is super bizarre to the "normies".
It's not at all surprising that they are increasingly getting labeled a cult (they aren't by traditional definition but there are a lot similarities). I'm really surprised it hasn't hit the mainstream yet given the connections to Elon, Thiel, frontier labs, dark crypto funding, FTX/SBF, some suicides and some murders. It's all a little nuts.
Meanwhile you got all the anti-democratic NRx people on the other side of it.
I suspect this new doc coming out on HBO will spark a media frenzy.
It's not at all surprising that they are increasingly getting labeled a cult (they aren't by traditional definition but there are a lot similarities). I'm really surprised it hasn't hit the mainstream yet given the connections to Elon, Thiel, frontier labs, dark crypto funding, FTX/SBF, some suicides and some murders. It's all a little nuts.
Meanwhile you got all the anti-democratic NRx people on the other side of it.
I suspect this new doc coming out on HBO will spark a media frenzy.