One part in particular pissed me off for being blatantly the opposite of reality
and remembering that it's not about me.
And so similarly I did not make a great show of regret about having spent my teenage years trying to accelerate the development of self-improving AI.
Eliezer literally has multiple sequence about his foolish youth where he nearly destroyed the world trying to jump straight to inventing AI instead of figuring out "AI Friendliness" first!
I did not neglect to conduct a review of what I did wrong and update my policies; you know some of those updates as the Sequences.
Nah, you learned nothing from what you did wrong and your sequence posts were the very sort of self aggrandizing bullshit you're mocking here.
Should I promote it to the center of my narrative in order to make the whole thing be about my dramatic regretful feelings? Nah. I had AGI concerns to work on instead.
Eliezer's "AGI concerns to work on" was making a plan for him, personally, to lead a small team, which would solve meta-ethics and figure out how to implement these meta-ethics in a perfectly reliable way in an AI that didn't exist yet (that a theoretical approach didn't exist for yet, that an inkling of how to make traction on a theoretical approach for didn't exist yet). The very plan Eliezer came up with was self aggrandizing bullshit that made everything about Eliezer.