Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedEliezer Yudkowsky: belief
6 Apr 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast Eliezer Yudkowsky — Why AI will kill us, aligning LLMs, nature of intelligence, SciFi, & rationality
“Yeah, because it would sound weird. But I think the smarter they are, the more likely they are to go for it if it’s credible.”
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- Speaker
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 6 Apr 2023
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
Transcript context
…I actually claim that most humans would not accept that offer. Yeah, because it would sound weird. But I think the smarter they are, the more likely they are to go for it if it’s credible. I mean, if you assume away the credibility issue and the weirdness issue. Like all their friends are doing it. Yeah. Even if the smarter they are the more likely they’re to do it, most humans are not that smart. From the gene’s point of view it doesn’t really matter how smart you are, right? It just matters if you’re producing copies.…
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