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

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The Smartest Scientist in the World

This goes back to the other thing we were like talking about like human level AI scientists helping us alignment. John John von Neumann is generally considered the smartest guy. We don't see these very smart humans just Doing these sort of weird power-sicking things that then take control of the entire system To their own ends Like if you have a sort of very smart scientist who's working on a problem He just seems to work on it rightlike why wouldn't we accept the same thing of a human level AI?

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