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Roman Yampolskiy: belief

2 Jun 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI

“I think we need that, but I would change the overall range. So right now it’s negative infinity to positive infinity pain-pleasure axis.”

— Roman Yampolskiy

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Speaker
Roman Yampolskiy
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belief
Recorded
2 Jun 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Well, that’s the question. Would you really want to live in a world where there’s no suffering as a dark question? Is there some level of suffering that reminds us of what this is all for? I think we need that, but I would change the overall range. So right now it’s negative infinity to positive infinity pain-pleasure axis. I would make it like zero to positive infinity and being unhappy is like I’m close to zero. Okay, so what’s S-risk? What are the possible things that you’re imagining with S-risk? So mass suffering of humans, what are we talking about there caused by AGI?…

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