[ExI] Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, Singularitarian Principles. Update?

[Samantha Atkins]

On Nov 12, 2010, at 2:33 PM, BillK wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Aleksei Riikonen wrote:
> <snip>
>> As Eliezer notes on his homepages that you have read, the primary way
>> to contact him is email. It's just that he gets so much email,
>> including from a large number of crazy people, that he of course
>> doesn't answer them all. (You, unfortunately, are one of those crazy
>> people who pretty surely will be ignored. So in the end, on this
>> matter it would be appropriate of you to accept that -- like all
>> people -- Eliezer should have the right to choose who he spends his
>> time talking to, and that he most likely would not want to correspond
>> with you.)
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> As I understand SU's request, she doesn't particularly want to enter a
> dialogue with Eliezer. Her request was for an updated version of The
> Singularitarian Principles
> Version 1.0.2     01/01/2000   marked 'obsolete' on Eliezer's website.
> 
> Perhaps someone could mention this to Eliezer or point her to more
> up-to-date writing on that subject?  Doesn't sound like an
> unreasonable request to me

This is indeed a very sensible request.  I am a bit annoyed by the number of times I have attempted to
refer to various papers in talks with SIAI people only to be told that that paper or statement is "now
obsolete" without being offered any up-to-date versions.    I have heard that the CEV is either "out-of-date" or still the main idea/goal so many times that I don't know what to believe about it except that the SIAI hasn't kept its own position documents  and working theories up to date.

- samantha