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#392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans

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The Rogus Wazilisk and the Paper Clip Maximizer Are Both Boogie Men of the AI Doomers

I suspect that what could very well happen if you're lucky is that we get integrated into something larger. So more higher complex consciousness. We'll make the lesser consciousnesses flourish even more. I've been at a dinner with Beth Jesus. It's the Twitter handle of one of the main thinkers behind the idea of effective accelerationism. And so when he asked me what I think about this position, I said it's a very beautiful position and I suspect it's wrong, but not for obvious reasons.

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