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#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Importance of Efficiency in Programming

I see it like yeah it has to do with efficiency the the aliens are very slow so if I'm optimizing this I want to have as few aliens in the loop as possible sure. It just seems you know it's easy to convince one of the aliens to write really shitty code that helps the aliens is already writing should be getting them to write shittier code isn't the problem. You're not going to harm the aliens once you're escaped because you're nice right but their world isn't what they wanted to be their world is like maybe they have like farms where little alien children are repeatedly bopped in the head because they do that for some weird reason and you want to shut down

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