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Eliezer Yudkowsky - Why AI Will Kill Us, Aligning LLMs, Nature of Intelligence, SciFi, & Rationality

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The Pros and Cons of Scaling Language Models

I think they're enacting the ritual of the young optimistic scientist who charges forth with no ideas of the difficulties And is slapped down by harsh reality and then becomes a grizzled cynic. If you sent me back in time, I'm not sure I could win this But maybe I would have some notion of like ah like if you calculate the message in Exactly this way then like this group will not take away this message. You know at that point you might as well just be like yeah, you know Just invest in exactly the right stocks and invest and exactly the right time and you can it can fund projects on your own with without alerting anyone.

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