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Ep371 - Tim Urban | Wait but Why? The Superintelligence Road
Talks at Google
The Insane Intelligence Explosion
If you talk about a human level, AGI, that's coding itself. More higher intelligence gives us power over every single species that's less intelligent than we are. Even something as smart as chimps, we can just put them in a cage. What are you going to do? Good luck with that, chimp. We have endless tranquilizers. And so if you just continue to extrapolate that, well, intelligence equals power, when something is so dramatically more intelligent than we have to assume it's more powerful. That kind of power is actually potentially real on Earth.
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