Navigating Ambition: The Ease of Achieving the Extraordinary

It’s time for AI Twitter Beefs #3:

00:00 Introduction

01:27 Marc Andreessen vs. Sam Altman

09:15 Mark Zuckerberg

35:40 Martin Casado

47:26 Gary Marcus vs. Miles Brundage Bet

58:39 Scott Alexander’s AI Art Turing Test

01:11:29 Roon

01:16:35 Stephen McAleer

01:22:25 Emmett Shear

01:37:20 OpenAI’s “Safety”

01:44:09 Naval Ravikant vs. Eliezer Yudkowsky

01:56:03 Comic Relief

01:58:53 Final Thoughts

Show Notes

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“Make Your Beliefs Pay Rent In Anticipated Experiences” by Eliezer Yudkowsky on LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/a7n8GdKiAZRX86T5A/making-beliefs-pay-rent-in-anticipated-experiences

Scott Alexander’s AI Art Turing Test: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-did-you-do-on-the-ai-art-turing

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