Quite seriously, though, in the last 5 or so years I'm more impressed by Yudkowsky not getting swept up in all the dumb political bullshit that consumes everybody else. Scott Alexander used to write about philosophy/game theory/fantasy worldbuilding/…, and now a worryingly large percentage of his blog is political editorials that could have been written by an edgy NYT columnist. Even fucking Scott Aaronson used to write about computer science and philosophy, and now a worryingly large percentage of his blog is political editorials that could have been written by an edgy NYT columnist.

Yudkowsky used to write about friendly AI, and he *still* writes about friendly AI. That's a triumph of rationalism right there.