You shouldn't respect anyone's opinion: you hear the opinion and judge the contents on it's own merit. Everyone you respect will have the odd terrible take, and people you loathe will periodically have a banger thought.

A ton of Dawkins fan boys are huffing copium since the man decided Claude is conscious (and for some incelly reason a woman). A lot of MAGA asshats are trying to torch data centers.

If you offload your own critical evaluation of ideas merely to an adjudication of the speaker... honestly I hear it no differently than "because chatGPT said".

This is just the laziest ad homium. Tell me, what do you think about the content? I am genuinely curious, and that analysis is 1000x more valuable.

He doesn't anymore