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Holden Karnofsky - Transformative AI & Most Important Century

Dwarkesh Podcast

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The Ends Justify the Means

I'm really not a fan of ends justify the means reasoning. I think that stuff looks a lot worse historically than people like trying to break the future and do helpful things. Maybe someday, you know, there will be one of these intense trade offs. And if I ever ran into one of those intensetrade offs, I have to ask myself how confident I really am. The current level of information and confidence I have is, in my opinion, not enough to do to do really unstructive other meansy stuff.

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