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#324 — Debating the Future of AI

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Why AI Will Save the World

I disagree with a few things in the essay that are at the core of my interest. I think we're going to agree that because intelligence is so good and because each increment of it is good and profitable, this AI arms race and gold rush is not going to stop. A cure for cancer and a cure for Alzheimer's will give you much more time with the people you love. Whether you think about the primacy of intelligence or not very much, it is the thing that has differentiated us from our primate cousins. It's a thing that allows us to do everything that is maintaining the status of civilization. If the future is going to be better than the past, it's going to

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