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#651 - Dr Mike Israetel - Can Money Actually Buy You Happiness?

Modern Wisdom

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The Future of AI Risk and Alignment

As AI gets smarter, do they come more soul, single-minded, focused, reckless and psychopathic? Or did they become less like that? What would you take as the entity that is in charge of your welfare, a chimp, or a person with an IQ of 130 who was raised in Sweden? Our fear of high intelligence is backwards. We're gasping in a fucking sea of stupidity half the time. The most likely thing highly intelligent machines will do is study the living fuck out of us atom by atom,. digitize us into memory and erase us in physical form.

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