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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 Predictions

There's actually no difference between extreme optimism and extreme pessimism because they both amount to doing nothing. So by 2025 Odds that humanity kills or dissents powers all of humanity? I have refused to To deploy timelines with fancy probabilities on them Consistently for low these many years for I feel that they like are just not my brains native format, you know. Every time I try to do the spends up making me stupider whyBecause there is very little you can do with it really you're just going to do the thing either way.

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