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#116 — AI: Racing Toward the Brink

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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I've Been Describing It as a Navigation Problem

I've been describing it as a navigation problem. And were navigating in the space of possible experiences, and that includes everything we can care about or claim to care about. This is a consequential picture of the consequences of actions and ways of thinking. I feel i can translate that back into a consequentials way of speaking about facts. These are just is questions jus what actually happens to all the relevant minds without remainder. A paper clip maximiser is built so as to respond to his questions about paper clips,. Not about what is right and what is good and im the greatest flourishing of sentient beings and so on. Exactly.

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