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159 - We’re All Gonna Die with Eliezer Yudkowsky

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Is There an Asteroid Hurling to Earth?

If you had God mode over the progress of AI research and just innovation, what choices would you make that humans are not currently making today? I mean, I could say something like shut down all the large GPU clusters. You know, Marvin Minsky, John McCarthy back in 1955, they weren't idiots. They didn't strike me as idiots. But you know, it's hard to see what's coming in advance of experimental evidence hitting you over the head with it. And if I only have the decade of the 2020s to run all the researchers on this giant island somewhere, it's really not a lot of time.

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