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 think you’re just wrong. I think the theory of intelligence is just flatly not that complicated.”
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- Speaker
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
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- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 6 Apr 2023
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
Transcript context
…But to me it seems like the nature of intelligence and what it entails is even more complicated than the sort of geopolitical or economic things that would be required to predict what the world’s going to look like. I think you’re just wrong. I think the theory of intelligence is just flatly not that complicated. Maybe that’s just the voice of a person with talent in one area but not the other. But that sure is how it feels to me. This would be even more convincing to me if we had some idea of what the pseudocode or circuit for intelligence would look like. And then you could say like — “Oh, this is what the pseudocode implies, we don’t even have that.”…
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