The AI Does Not Hate You: Superintelligence, Rationality and the Race to Save the World by Tom ChiversMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Man, if you had told me a couple years ago that a Buzzfeed writer would write a popular book on AI risk and the rationalist movement, and my main complaint would be that it wasn’t sensationalist enough, I would have been very confused. But here we are.
The author seems like a really nice and reasonable person, who thinks AI risk might be important and wants to understand and explain it. But mostly it seems like most rationalists were reasonably pretty wary of talking to a journalist, so he didn’t get much unfiltered content from them. So the book ends up being largely a summary of the Sequences and some other rationalist ideas, with a few interviews thrown in. Which is cool, the ideas are the important part, but if you really want the ideas you can just read the Sequences. (Though this is a nicely digestible version of the highlights.) I think the book just needed him to go undercover to about three really crazy rationalist parties.
I did like the chapter at the end where he does internal double crux with Anna Salamon; it felt very true.
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