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

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The Importance of Alignment Theory

Successful entry relies on augmented humans being able to bring us to the finish line or some other exit plan. Maybe with neuroscience you can train people to be less idiots and the smartest existing people Are then actually able to work on alignment due to their increased wisdom. Maybe you can scan and slice a human Well slice and scan in that order a human brain and run it as a simulation and upgrade the intelligence of the uploaded human Um Not really single whole lot of other maybe you can Just do alignment theory without running any systems powerful enough that they might maybe kill everyone because when you're doing this You don't get to just guess in the dark or if you do you're dead um But yeah, like

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