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Dwarkesh Patel: disagreement

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

“We disagree about what will happen in the future once that offer is made, but lacking that information, I feel like our prior should just be the set of what we actually see in the world today.”

— Dwarkesh Patel

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Dwarkesh Patel
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disagreement
Recorded
6 Apr 2023
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Dwarkesh Podcast

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…Because nobody’s made them an offer for better kids with less DNA Here’s what I think is the problem. I can just look out of the world and see this is what it looks like. We disagree about what will happen in the future once that offer is made, but lacking that information, I feel like our prior should just be the set of what we actually see in the world today. Yeah I think in that case, we should believe that the dates on the calendars will never show 2024. Every single year throughout human history, in the 13.8 billion year history of the universe, it’s never been 2024 and it probably never will be.…

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