this review has a number of issues

For example, it doesn't even get through the subhead before calling Yud an "AI researcher".

All three of these movements [Bay Area rationalists, "AI safety" and Effective Altruists] attempt to derive their way of viewing the world from first principles, applying logic and evidence to determine the best ways of being.

Sure, Jan.

They also seem to broadly agree with the 'hey, humans are pretty shit at thinking too, you know' line of LLM apologetics.

“LLMs and humans are both sentence-producing machines, but they were shaped by different processes to do different work,” say the pair – again, I’m in full agreement.

But judging from the rest of the review I can see how you kind of have to be at least somewhat rationalist-adjacent to have a chance of actually reading the thing to the end.

It's even worse than Methods? That should be surprising but isn't.