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

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The Limitations of Oppenheimer's Man-Hand Project

"The hinge of this argument is we will build a powerful mind that is nonetheless too weak to have any options. We wouldn't really like I thought that is one of the implications of having something that is at the human level Intelligence," he said. "We've already got a bunch of human level intelligences so how about if we just do whatever it is you plan to do with that weak AI?" He added: "There's legit Galaxy-brained shenanigans you can pull when somebody asks you to design an AI"

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