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

Dwarkesh Podcast

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The Importance of Increasing Your Intelligence

The smart thing is kind of like a delicate issue here because somebody could always be like I would never take that offer and then I'm like yeah. You know, it's not very polite to be like I bet if we kept on increasing your intelligence you would at some point start to start to sound more attractive to you. Your weirdness tolerance would go up as you became more rapidly capable of re-adapting your thoughts to weird stuff. The smarter they are the more likely they are to go for it if it's credible.

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