Robert Wright: belief

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…Should be possible ... capable of it. And, and the funny thing is it fosters clearer understanding of us by them. It is... You know, senses of thre- A, a symmetrical sense of threat is mutually reinforcing and mutually amplifying, and it can work in the other direction too. So yeah. I mean, on the agency thing, I mean, I know I'm sounding like whatever I sound like and sounding like, making the book sound like whatever it sounds like. But one of the chapters I'm, I most like is the one you kind of implicitly alluded to wh- where I raise the, like, who has the agency question, the, the Yann LeCun chapter, where he says, "We're the ones" you know. "We researchers," he says to Eliezer, "We researchers have the agen- You know, we have the agency. We're building the AI. We're the ones with the agency. " I think, as you said, it's actually an open question because the AIs seem to be pretty good at understanding us, and we have to understand them. But yeah. They've read all our work, for sure. So that gives them a big lead up. Like-…

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