Reassessing Eliezer Yudkowsky's track record on AI predictions
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-08-07
A thread discusses Eliezer Yudkowsky's historical AI predictions. While a quoted post highlights that many of his past forecasts on human-level AI were disastrously wrong—urging humility in future predictions—a replier defends him, noting his track record on neural networks from the early 2000s is better than most.
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