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Eliezer Yudkowsky - Why AI Will Kill Us, Aligning LLMs, Nature of Intelligence, SciFi, & Rationality

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The Utility Function of Humanity

The one thing I would dispute is how many things need to go right from the world as a whole for any one of these paths to succeed. It's not conceivable to me that it would be something that is very sympathetic to human motivations having been encapsulated all of our output. There's so many false things like humanity, there's so many possiblelike name three name one It spell it out. Wants to keep us as a zoo the same way we keep like other animals in a zoo This is not the best outcome for humanity, but it's just like something where we survive and flourish.

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