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

Dwarkesh Podcast

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The Power of Alignment

I was specialized on Alignment rather than persuading humans. I am more persuasive in some ways than your your typical average human Um, I also did in self alignment Wasn't smart enough Okay, so you got to go smarter than me And and furthermore the posture here is not there's not so much like can it directly attack and persuade humans but like can it sneak through One of the ways of executing a handshake of like I tell you how to build an AI. It sounds plausible It kills you. These are all like like the person on this planet who is doing the alignment work Thought those kinds of thoughts and I'm skeptical that it decouples If even you yourself are able to do

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