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Eliezer Yudkowsky

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01 / evaluation

If your exit plan takes a long time, then you better shut down the academic AI journals and maybe you even have the Gestapo busting in people’s houses to accuse them of being underground AI researchers and I would really rather not live there and maybe even that doesn’t work.

“If your exit plan takes a long time, then you better shut down the academic AI journals and maybe you even have the Gestapo busting in people’s houses to accuse them of being underground AI researchers and I would really rather not live there and maybe even that doesn’t work.”
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Dwarkesh Podcast

03 / evaluation

You could ask GPT-4 to generate 10,000 approaches to alignment and that does not get you very far because GPT-4 is not going to have very good suggestions. It’s good that we have a bunch of different people coming up with different ideas because maybe one of them works, but you don’t get a bunch of conditionally independent chances on each one.

“You could ask GPT-4 to generate 10,000 approaches to alignment and that does not get you very far because GPT-4 is not going to have very good suggestions. It’s good that we have a bunch of different people coming up with different ideas because maybe one of them works, but you don’t get a bunch of conditionally independent chances on each one.”
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

04 / evaluation

I’m too stupid to solve alignment and I’m too stupid to execute a handshake with a superintelligence that I told somebody else how to align in a cleverly, deceptive way where that superintelligence ended up in the kind of basin of logical decision theory, handshakes or any number of other methods that I myself am too stupid to a vision because I’m too stupid to solve alignment. The point is — I think about this stuff.

“I’m too stupid to solve alignment and I’m too stupid to execute a handshake with a superintelligence that I told somebody else how to align in a cleverly, deceptive way where that superintelligence ended up in the kind of basin of logical decision theory, handshakes or any number of other methods that I myself am too stupid to a vision because I’m too stupid to solve alignment. The point is — I think about this stuff.”
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

05 / evaluation

If you ask me to play a part of somebody who’s quite unlike me, I think there’s some amount of penalty that the character I’m playing gets to his intelligence because I’m secretly back there simulating him.

“If you ask me to play a part of somebody who’s quite unlike me, I think there’s some amount of penalty that the character I’m playing gets to his intelligence because I’m secretly back there simulating him.”
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

06 / evaluation

The academic literature would have to be seen to be believed. But the point is the one major technical contribution that I’m proud of, which is not all that precedented and you can look at the literature and see it’s not all that precedented, would in fact have been a way for something that knew about that technical innovation to build a superintelligence that would kill you and extract value itself from that superintelligence in a way that would just completely blindside the literature as it existed prior to that technical contribution.

“The academic literature would have to be seen to be believed. But the point is the one major technical contribution that I’m proud of, which is not all that precedented and you can look at the literature and see it’s not all that precedented, would in fact have been a way for something that knew about that technical innovation to build a superintelligence that would kill you and extract value itself from that superintelligence in a way that would just completely blindside the literature as it existed prior to that technical contribution.”
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

07 / evaluation

If you keep fantasies like that aside, then I think that in the end, even if this world ends up having less time, it was the right thing to do rather than just letting everybody sleepwalk into death and get there a little later.

“If you keep fantasies like that aside, then I think that in the end, even if this world ends up having less time, it was the right thing to do rather than just letting everybody sleepwalk into death and get there a little later.”
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast
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