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#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Evolution of Natural Selection
I think I think it's hard to separate my hope from my objective intuition about what super intelligent systems look like. If one studies evolutionary biology with a bit of math, you can find people being optimistic about what the utterly alien optimization process of natural selection will produce. In fact, predators overrun prey populations all the time and have crashes. And indeed, something smarter than us would be also spewed much like smarter than natural selection. But there's a there's a lesson there. There's a warning.
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