Dwarkesh Podcast / episode intelligence
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13 published records
01 / commitment
“The fact that our horizons are unlimited, does not guarantee that we will get anywhere and that we won't start declining tomorrow.”
02 / uncertainty
“In fact, a hardware theory explains very well why they would have similar scores and IQ tests correlate with literacy, job performance, and so on—whereas I don't know how the software would explain why it would involve being adopted by different families.”
03 / belief
“I don't claim that they are privileged over other arguments. I just put them out because I think that argument works.”
04 / preference
“I think that the choice of the word fun for the thing that I explained more precisely, but still not very precisely as, as a “creation of knowledge where the different kinds of knowledge in explicit, unconscious, conscious explicit, are all in harmony with each other.”
05 / prediction
“A program for a robot to locate another robot of the right species and then have sex with it is beyond present-day robotics, but it will be done. It does not require creativity because that same program will lead the next wolf to do the same thing in the same circumstances.”
06 / evaluation
“Or maybe I should make it fun. And if I can't, that's a reason to stop all those things, if all those things are excluded, because by definition, the thing is good, and your pain, your suffering doesn't matter, then that opens the door to not only suffering, but to stasis.”
07 / prediction
“For example, if I wrote a deep learning program, I trained it over financial history and asked it to make me a trillion dollars on the stock market.”
08 / evaluation
“I suspect it's not software because––let's suppose it was software and something that they chose to do is something they could change—it's mysterious to me why these people would also accept the jobs with lower pay but are less cognitively demanding, or why they would choose to do worse on an academic test or IQ test.”
09 / evaluation
“Now, once we have an experiment, such as my thought experiment, if that was actually done, then people could not use their arguments based on a fallacious idea of empiricism, because their theory would have been refuted, even by the standards of empiricism, which shouldn't have been needed in the first place.”
10 / evaluation
“He thinks that we can comprehend quantum mechanics and apes can't, and maybe the extraterrestrials can comprehend something beyond quantum mechanics, which we can't comprehend, and no amount of brain add-ons with extra hardware can give us that because they have the hardware that is adapted to having these concepts which we haven't.”
11 / preference
“We have knowledge that is inexplicit, like our knowledge of grammar is always my favorite example, as we know why certain sentences are acceptable and why they're unacceptable.”
12 / uncertainty
“But I don't think we're doing the wrong thing to an existential risk level. And over the next 700 years, or whatever it is, well, I don't want to prophesy, because I don't know most of the advances that are going to be made in that time.”
13 / evaluation
“Then, you would expect that thing we don't know about, and nobody has bothered to control for it to be correlated with IQ.”