realizing how deeply my opinion of Yud is shaped by the order & context in which i read his content: i first ran across him because i was working on a cybersecurity risk tool and the data scientist said use to naive bayes so i was googling to make sure i implemented it correctly, was kinda impressed by the bayes website w his name on it; then Amazon recommended AI to Zombies so i ordered it, read it, liked it enough to unsuccessfully offer it around to friends and family. awhile later i read Superintelligences because Elon had included it in a list of book recommendations and i liked the other ones i'd already read on the list. came away unconvinced (too many unknowns and "we don't know so let's say 50/50" -> many permutations of argument eventually concluding xrisk is 50/50- umm?) but thought it was a reasonable book. at some point i was curious to check out LessWrong as the origin of Roko's basilisk, clicked around awhile and felt it was a giant nerdsnipe and also was kinda offended that EAs had clarity around animal welfare & were often vegan but Yud and others subscribed to some cope where they could just pay a small amount to an animal charity and continue eating animals guilt free. so i bounced off LessWrong and stuck to irl hobbies. then the pandemic happened and after some months of boredom i stumbled across hpmor and read it with the prior that Yud is a singular character who feels intellectually superior and overvalues intelligence -> moral worth, as most non vegans do. finally i logged on to twitter seeking an alternative social outlet after a year of pandemic cancellation of irl events, got simclustered with the Rats and started reading Yud's tweets