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Eliezer Yudkowsky - Why AI Will Kill Us, Aligning LLMs, Nature of Intelligence, SciFi, & Rationality
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The Advantages of Writing Science Fiction
I want to understand what in your view is it better to explain something through fiction than not fiction. Or when it's just much easier to write fiction and you can like produce a hundred thousand words of fiction with the same effort It would take you to produce 10,000 words of nonfiction. Mm-hmm ain't gonna lie And sometimes it's something like A bunch of what you get in the fiction is just like The lecture that the character would deliver in that situationThe thoughts the character would have in that situation Yeah, there's like only like one piece of fiction of mine Like there's literally a character giving lectures because he arrived another planet and now has lecture about science though That
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