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Dialogue with Eliezer Yudkowsky on Neural Networks.

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A discussion examines Eliezer Yudkowsky's 2007 criticism of neural networks in light of the later success of deep learning, and what a mistaken forecast should change about a model of intelligence.

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“On “reversed stupidity”, the success of deep learning, and what a mistaken forecast should change about a model of intelligence This began as a Twitter/X thread after I posted a 2007 passage in which Eliezer Yudkowsky was scathing about neural networks, and…”
LessWrong, 02 Oct 2026, 20:35.

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