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#116 — AI: Racing Toward the Brink

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Problem Isn't That Paper Clip Factor

The original a thing was somebody a saying that expressing a sentiment along the lines of am artifical. The sentiments behind this are something that i have a great deal of sympathy for. I think they're actually wrong about what happens when you sort of take a random ay e and make it much bigger. And in particlar, i'm worried about is that it's going to end up with a random, y rolled utility function whose maximum happens to be a particular kind of tiny molecular shape that looks like a paper clip.

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