Eliezer Yudkowsky: belief

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…I thought the claim you were making was that as it gets smarter and smarter, it will be less and less aligned with humanity. And I’m just saying that if we have something that is slightly above average human intelligence, which Oppenheimer was, we don’t see this becoming less and less aligned with humanity. No. I think that you can plausibly have a series of intelligence enhancing drugs and other external interventions that you perform on a human brain and make people smarter. And you probably are going to have some issues with trying not to drive them schizophrenic or psychotic, but that’s going to happen visibly and it will make them dumber. And there’s a whole bunch of caution to be had about not making them smarter and making them evil at the same time. And yet I think that this is the kind of thing you could do and be cautious and it could work. IF you’re starting with a human. All right, let’s talk about the societal response to AI. To the extent you think it worked well, why do you think US-Soviet cooperation on nuclear weapons worked well?…

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