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#292 - How Much Does the Future Matter?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Safety in Engineering

Stuart Russell, who is my vote for one of the wisest people to listen to on this topic, just to make the safety conversation integral to the conversation about developing the technology in the first place. He asked us to imagine a world where it would just be how perverse it would be if engineers who were designing bridges thought about bridge safety only as an afterthought and under great duress. Likewise, it should be completely insane to think about the prospect of building AGI without grappling with the problem of alignment and related matters. And we have to be preparing for the near term scenarios as well as the long term scenarios.

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