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159 - We’re All Gonna Die with Eliezer Yudkowsky

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Is There a New Law of Existence Involved in AI?

I think the conclusion that you left me with is that my brain, which I consider to be at least decently smart, is actually a byproduct of this desire to reproduce. And just like conscious thought is a tool, which is a useful tool in means of that end. So if we're applying this to AI and AI's desire to achieve some certain goal, what's the parallel there? Well, the whole thing I'm saying is that we do not know how to get goals into a system. They were optimized over using gradient descent. But if you shift them outside of that distribution, I expect other weird things start happening when they reflect on themselves. What kind of utility functions are

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