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#255 — The Future of Intelligence

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Is There a Second Chance to Create a Fully Autonomous General Intelligence?

Sam harris: I think there's two mistakes in your argument. The first one, you say my imintuition, in your inturition. Most of the people who have this ve have an intuition about biia. If we actually built a true general intelligence, what that means is that we would suddenly find ourselves in relationship to something that we can't perfectly under. And if this person can think a thousand times or a million times faster than you can, and has goals that are less than perfectly lined with your own, that's going to be a problem. Eventually, we can't find ourselves in a state of perpetual negotiation with systems that are more competent and powerful and intelligent

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