Eliezer's analogy and decision theory

Podcast episode for AI #145: You’ve Got Soul.

* 00:00:00 - Introduction

* 00:01:49 - Table of Contents

* 00:06:17 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:07:17 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:08:31 - On Your Marks

* 00:10:15 - Get My Agent On The Line

* 00:10:49 - Advertising Is Coming

* 00:12:11 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

* 00:18:29 - Fun With Media Generation

* 00:19:52 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer

* 00:21:04 - You Drive Me Crazy

* 00:21:22 - Unprompted Attention

* 00:21:35 - They Took Our Jobs

* 00:27:18 - Get Involved

* 00:28:30 - Introducing

* 00:28:54 - Variously Effective Altruism

* 00:32:48 - In Other AI News

* 00:35:35 - Show Me the Money

* 00:35:41 - Quiet Speculations

* 00:36:55 - Seb Krier On Agents Versus Multiagents

* 00:44:05 - Olivia Moore Makes 2026 Predictions

* 00:47:04 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

* 00:48:15 - Americans Really Do Not Like AI

* 00:53:47 - The Quest for Sane Regulations

* 00:55:55 - My Offer Is Nothing

* 01:01:27 - America Pauses

* 01:03:08 - David Sacks Covered In New York Times

* 01:06:37 - The Week in Audio

* 01:07:06 - Rhetorical Innovation

* 01:07:56 - To The Moon

* 01:14:55 - Showing Up

* 01:19:29 - DeepMind Pivots Its Interpretability Research

* 01:22:33 - The Explicit Goal Of OpenAI Is Recursive Self-Improvement

* 01:27:55 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

* 01:35:07 - Misaligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence Is Difficult To Hire For

* 01:36:02 - You’ve Got Soul

* 01:47:16 - Disagreements About Timelines

* 01:51:48 - Other Disagreements About Timelines

* 01:57:18 - Messages From Janusworld

* 01:57:32 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

* 01:57:51 - The Lighter Side

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