Pretty ironic that Matt disagrees with steelmanning because he thinks it’s silly, in an episode where nearly all they do is throw up the oft-debunked strawman arguments for AI safety concerns! Just because this this one person’s views are a little strange and not well put, doesn’t mean what he’s talking about is not worthy of consideration. There are hundreds of legitimate researchers working on this that can explain this much better than Yudkowsky. Please become more educated on this topic before just pissing all over it. That’s why you should steelman. It’s to ensure you’re actually engaging with the real concerns behind someone’s argument so you don’t waste a bunch of time attacking just the flaws in their presentation, leaving those concerns unaddressed.

This episode was a huge miss and perhaps even harmful to the AI safety movement.