Yudkowsky ripped as 'low caliber intellectual running sham charity' in X spat
inductionheads · x · 2026-10-17
- X user @boneGPT blasted MIRI founder Eliezer Yudkowsky as a "low caliber intellectual running a sham charity."
- The quoted post argues MIRI's business model depends on the shoggoth staying inscrutable, so any progress on AI interpretability directly threatens Yudkowsky's bottom line.
- An ongoing public feud in the AI-safety community over the value of interpretability research versus MIRI's doomer position.
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