Debate over why nobody followed Yudkowsky's call for a rigorous fun theory
jd_pressman · x · 2026-11-14
In a debate with EpistemicHope and Andrew Curran, jdpressman argues that Yudkowsky shouldn't be blamed for the lack of a rigorous fun theory: he explicitly told readers in The Sequences to build one and provided a high-effort intuitive starting point. The failure, he says, lies with others in the community, deterred by the perception that the problem already had too much failed work.
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