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Eliezer Yudkowsky: uncertainty

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

“You’re just going to do the thing either way. I don’t know how much time I have left.”

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

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Speaker
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Claim type
uncertainty
Recorded
6 Apr 2023
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

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…Why? Because you just do the thing. You just look at whatever opportunities are left to you, whatever plans you have left, and you go out and do them. And if you make up some fancy number for your chance of dying next year, there’s very little you can do with it, really. You’re just going to do the thing either way. I don’t know how much time I have left. The reason I’m asking is because if there is some sort of concrete prediction you’ve made, it can help establish some sort of track record in the future as well.…

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