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#133 – Max Tegmark on how a 'put-up-or-shut-up' resolution led him to work on AI and algorithmic news selection

80,000 Hours Podcast

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Is There a Failure Mode in the Social Contract?

In the 19 fifties, the first article came out in a new england journal of medicine saying, smoking causes lun cancer. 20 years later, that whole idea was largely silenced and marginalized. Why was that? Because of te failure of allignment. So big tobacco was so rich and so powerful that they successfully pulled off a regulatory capture. And i would actually go as far as saying that that's already started to happen. Some whatever company first builds a g i, realizes that they can take over the world and do whatever the ceo wants with the world,. Well, they can just follow the play book af big tobacco and big oil and take over the government.

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