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44: End Games (part 1) | Naval Ravikant

The After On Podcast

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Are We Descended From Bacteria?

In the a i case, you go from to, quote, peter teal, zero to one very quickly. There's really no other state. The benign neglect scenarios, how you and i would treat a pile of ants or bacteria? And we are descended from bacteria, just like the superai would be descended from us. It is entirely plausible that a supera become as intelligent in relation to us as we are to bacteria. Should that happen, there's no reason to think that we would have any higher moral standing with that super ai than bacteria has with us. If it gets better at designing better software and hardware than we are, we can rely on it not only doing

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