Nate Sparrow vs critics: do LessWrong posts and non-peer-reviewed papers prove AI risk?
emax · x · 2026-09-15
Nate Silver argued AI-risk proponents "show their work" citing hundreds of working papers, thousands of LessWrong posts, and best-selling books. A critic corrected him: most are non-peer-reviewed papers and community blog posts, many by school dropouts, plus a book even the EA community deemed abysmally bad.
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