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Dwarkesh Patel: uncertainty

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

“I still think even most smart humans in that situation might disagree, but we don’t know what would happen in that situation.”

— Dwarkesh Patel

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Dwarkesh Patel
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uncertainty
Recorded
6 Apr 2023
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Dwarkesh Podcast

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…We haven’t gone that smart. What you’re saying is — Look, people are still making more of their DNA in a situation where nobody has offered them a way to get all the stuff they want without the DNA. So of course they haven’t tossed DNA out the window. Yeah. First of all, I’m not even sure what would happen in that situation. I still think even most smart humans in that situation might disagree, but we don’t know what would happen in that situation. Why not just use the evidence we have so far? PCR. You right now, could get some of you and make like a whole gallon jar full of your own DNA. Are you doing that? No. Misaligned. Misaligned.…

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