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Joscha Bach: belief

1 Aug 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans

“I think from a pragmatic perspective, you have to bet always on the timelines in which you’re alive.”

— Joscha Bach

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Speaker
Joscha Bach
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
1 Aug 2023
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Do you have a sense that the march towards this uncontrollable autonomy of super intelligent systems is inevitable? I mean, that’s essentially what he’s saying, that there’s no hope. His advice to young people was prepare for a short life. I don’t think that’s useful. I think from a pragmatic perspective, you have to bet always on the timelines in which you’re alive. It doesn’t make sense to have a financial bet in which you bet that the financial system is going to disappear, right? Yeah.…

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