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

Dwarkesh Podcast

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The Coherence of AI and Human Behavior

We're describing you are not training a human there. Would you at least say that we are living in a better situation than one in which we have some sort of black box where you have this sort of Machiavellian Fittest survive? I think the present system is not smart enough to have a deep conniving actress thinking long strings of coherent thoughts about how to predict the next word. As the Sist the as the mask that it wears as the people it's pretending to be get smarter and smarter, something strange starts happening within the system. It needs to be at least as smart as the human human it is predicting in order to do that. This is not airtight logic

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