Anticipation Builds: Launch Events for New AI Book

Ladies and gentlemen, we are days away from the long-awaited release of Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares's new book, “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies”!!!

Mon Sep 15 @9am PT: My Interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky

We'll be kicking things off the morning of Monday, September 15th with a live watch party of my very special new interview with the one and only Eliezer Yudkowsky!

All of us will be in the YouTube live chat. I'll be there, producer Ori will be there, and you'll get a first look at this new & exciting interview: Questions he's never been asked before.

We'll talk about my history first meeting Eliezer in 2008, how things have evolved, what's going on now, why everybody has their head in the sand. And we'll even go to the LessWrong sequences and do some rationality deep cuts.

This will be posted on my personal YouTube channel. But if you're subscribed to Doom Debates, you'll get the link in your feed as we get closer to Monday.

Mark your calendars for Monday, September 15th, 9:00am Pacific, 12:00 PM Eastern. That's 1600 UTC for my Europals out there, midnight for my China peeps.

I think YouTube commenter @pairy5420 said it best: "Bro, I could have three essays due, my crush just text me, the FBI outside my house, me having a winning lottery ticket to turn in all at the same time, and I still wouldn't miss the interview."

That's the spirit, @pairy5420. You won't want to miss the Eliezer interview YouTube premiere. I'll see you all there. It's gonna be a great start to the book's launch week.

Tue Sep 16 @2pm PT: The Doom Debates Unofficial Book Launch Party

Now let's talk about the launch day: Tuesday, September 16th. Once you've picked up your copy of the book, get ready for the Doom Debates unofficial "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" launch party!!!

This is going to be a very special, unprecedented event here on this channel. It's gonna be a three hour live stream hosted by me and producer Ori, our new full-time producer. He's gonna be the co-host of the party.

He’s finally coming out from behind the scenes, making his debut on the channel. Unless you count the first episode of the show - he was there too. The two of us are going to be joined by a who's who of very special guests. Get a load of these guests who are gonna be dropping by the unofficial launch party:

* John Sherman from the AIX Risk Network and Michael, my other co-host of Warning Shots

* Roman Yampolskiy, a top researcher and communicator in the field of AI x-risk

* Emmett Shear, founder and CEO of a new AI alignment company called Softmax. He was previously the CEO of Twitch, and the interim CEO of OpenAI

* Roon, member of the technical staff at OpenAI and friend of the show

* Gary Marcus, cognitive scientist, author, entrepreneur, and famous AGI skeptic

* Liv Boeree, the YouTube star, poker champion, and science communicator

* Robert Wright, bestselling author, podcaster, wide-ranging intellectual, about announce his new book about AI

* Holly Elmore, executive director of PauseAI US

* Roko Mijic, you guys know Roko 😉

And that's not all. There's going to be even more that I can't tell you about now, but it will not disappoint.

So I really hope to see you all there at the unofficial "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" launch party, Tuesday, September 16th.

Same as the book’s launch day: Tuesday, September 16th at 2:00pm Pacific, 5:00pm Eastern.

Pick up your copy of the book that morning. Don't come to the party without it. We're gonna have a bouncer stationed at the door, and if you don't show him that you've got a copy of "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies," he's gonna give you a big thumbs down.

BUY THE BOOK!!!

In all seriousness though, please support the book if you like Doom Debates. If you feel like you've gotten some value out of the show and you wanna give back a little bit, that is my ask. Head over to ifanyonebuildsit.com and buy the book from their links there. Go to Amazon, Barnes and Noble, wherever you normally buy books, just buy the damn thing. It's $14.99 on Kindle. It's not gonna break the bank.

Then spread the word. Tell your friends and family, tell your coworkers at the office. Try to get a few more copies sold. We don't have another book launch coming, guys. This is it.

This is our chance to take a little bit of action when it can actually move the needle and help. If you've been procrastinating this whole time, you gotta stop. You gotta go buy it now because the New York Times is gonna be checking this week.

This is the last week of pre-orders. You really want to give it that launch bump. Don't try to drag it out after launch week. Time is of the essence.

The Doom Debates Mission

Ultimately that's why I do this show. This isn't just entertainment for smart people. There is actually an important mission. We're trying to optimize the mission here. Help me out.

Or at the very least, help high quality discourse because a lot of people across the spectrum agree, this is a high quality book contributing to the discourse, and we need more books like it.

Thanks again for being with me on this journey to lower P(Doom) by convincing the average person that AI is urgently life-threatening to them and their loved ones. It's really important work.

See you all on Monday 9am PT at the Eliezer Yudkowsky interview (details coming soon), and Tuesday 2pm PT at the launch party (event link)!