https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/where-are-the-ai-skepticism-stories
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/whats-left-for-tech
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-effective-altruism-shell-game
I'm normally a fan, but he clearly has no idea what he's talking about here and just says wildly false things.
People are also trading
@shankypanky I think I'm leaning towards no. He doesn't seem interested in having true beliefs. He just came out with yet another idiotic post that reveals misunderstandings of basic logic and human psychology, and as far as I can tell he didn't even bother to respond to Scott's post defending EA.
The argument in favor is of course that it'd be primarily to convince the audience, not Freddie himself, but I don't have a large audience myself and I don't expect any significant fraction of Freddie's readers to see my post, so it seems kind of pointless.