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Eliezer Yudkowsky: belief

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

“If you keep on optimizing the dogs, which is not the correct course of action, I think I mostly expect this to eventually blow up on you.”

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

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Speaker
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
6 Apr 2023
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

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…Does the weird shit look like — dog gets smart enough….humans stop existing? If you keep on optimizing the dogs, which is not the correct course of action, I think I mostly expect this to eventually blow up on you. But blow up on you that bad?…

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