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
“I agree it’s possible to imagine things being even worse. Not quite sure what the other point of the question is.”
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- Speaker
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 6 Apr 2023
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
Transcript context
…Would you agree with this framing that we at least live in a more dignified world than we could have otherwise been living in? As in the companies that are pursuing this have many people in them. Sometimes the heads of those companies understand the problem. They might be acting recklessly given that knowledge, but it’s better than a situation in which warring countries are pursuing AI and then nobody has even heard of alignment. Do you see this world as having more dignity than that world? I agree it’s possible to imagine things being even worse. Not quite sure what the other point of the question is. It’s not literally as bad as possible. In fact, by this time next year, maybe we’ll get to see how much worse it can look. Peter Thiel has an aphorism that extreme pessimism or extreme optimism amount to the same thing, which is doing nothing.…
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