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Will AI destroy civilization in the near future? (with Connor Leahy)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The Evolution of Speedrunners
In a sense, I expect AI systems to be more like speedrunners than they are like lazy humans. They are systems that are optimized for optimizing things. That's how we build them. We don't give them emotions such as laziness or tiredness because in our ancestral environment, you're extremely energy constrained. If you took the worst psychopathic criminals from maximum security prisons and gave them 3000 IQ and they never got tired, yeah, I expect they would try to take over the world or worse.
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