@alwayscurious @dalias @ska He's also been part of the cult which yielded the current AI labs since the 2000s. His lesswrong account was registered ~2mo after the site was founded.

He's also a weird Zionist and mostly notable (outside of academia) for stating that women never liked him much, therefore misogyny in his field cannot possibly be a real problem (https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=2091#comment-326664). But that's neither here nor there I suppose.