Dwarkesh Patel: belief

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…I do not right now want to just take some random AI, be like, yeah, GPT Five looks pretty smart, like, GPT Six, let's hand off the world to it. And it was just some random system shaped by web text and what was good for making money. And it was not a thoughtful we are determining the fate of the universe and what our children will be like. It was just some random people at open AI made some random engineering decisions with no idea what they were doing. Even if you really want to hand off the worlds of the machines, that's just not how you'd want to do it. Right, okay. I'm tempted to ask you what the system would look like where you'd think, yeah, I'm happy with what I think. This is more thoughtful than human civilization as a whole. I think what it would do would be more creative and beautiful and lead to better goodness in general. But I feel like your answer is probably going to be that I just want this society to reflect on it for a while. Yeah, my answer, it's going to be like that first question. I'm just, like, not really super ready for it. I think when you're comparing to humans, most of the goodness of humans comes from this option value if we get to think for a long time. And I do think I like humans now more now than 500 years ago, and I like them more 500 years ago than 5000 years before that. So I'm pretty excited about there's some kind of trajectory that doesn't involve crazy dramatic changes, but involves a series of incremental changes that I like. And so to the extent we're building AI, mostly I want to preserve that option. I want to preserve that kind of gradual growth and development into the future.…

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