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#133 – Max Tegmark on how a 'put-up-or-shut-up' resolution led him to work on AI and algorithmic news selection

80,000 Hours Podcast

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Is There a Superintelligent Agent That Can't Persuade Us?

i spent a lot of uncertainty about how you kno, a sort of a i revolution mihti play out seems to rest on this question. What is an agent that is much more intelligent than humans going to actually be able to accomplish? Ause sens you could have a mind that's much larger and much more advanced than that of humans but still won't necessarily be able to do things that are completely magical to us. So that's partly a question ofoutumansloy and partly question of physics. Listen to both.

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