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Eliezer Yudkowsky: prediction

6 Apr 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast Eliezer Yudkowsky — Why AI will kill us, aligning LLMs, nature of intelligence, SciFi, & rationality

“I’m trying to think about whether I expect super dogs to be sufficiently in a human frame of reference in virtue of them also being mammals.”

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

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Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Recorded
6 Apr 2023
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Dwarkesh Podcast

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…But blow up on you that bad? I expect to blow up on you quite bad. I’m trying to think about whether I expect super dogs to be sufficiently in a human frame of reference in virtue of them also being mammals. That a super dog would create human ice-cream. You bred them to have preferences about humans and they invent something that is like ice cream to those preferences. Or does it just go off someplace stranger? There could be AI ice cream. Thing that is the equivalent of ice cream for AIs.…

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