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Paul Christiano: belief

31 Oct 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast Paul Christiano — Preventing an AI takeover

“Neutralize the threat is a similar issue where it's just like, I think you would kill the humans if you didn't care at all about them. So maybe your question you're asking is, like, why would you care at all about but I think you don't have to care much to not kill the humans.”

— Paul Christiano

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Paul Christiano
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belief
Recorded
31 Oct 2023
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

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…Or the leaser line is that they're made of atoms you could use for something else. Yeah, I mean, I think the literal they're made of atoms is like, quite there are not many atoms in humans. Neutralize the threat is a similar issue where it's just like, I think you would kill the humans if you didn't care at all about them. So maybe your question you're asking is, like, why would you care at all about but I think you don't have to care much to not kill the humans. Okay, sure. Because there's just so much raw resources elsewhere in the universe.…

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