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

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Why I'm Not Confident That Doom Is More Than 50% Probabilous

I'm just kind of skeptical of sort of first principles reasoning That has really wild conclusions Okay, so everything in the solar system just ends up in a random configuration then uh or it stays like it is unless you have very good reasons to think otherwise. And especially if you think it's going to be very different from the way it's going You must have very very good reasons like iron clatter reasons we're thinking that it's Going to be very very different than the way it is. I don't even know what to say to this thing We're like this tiny flash of things being in this particular structure out of a 13.8 billion year old universe which very little of which was like

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