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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 Thinking One Forward Pass at a Time

AI systems have to think one forward pass at a time one word at a time and in some sense that's Makes their thinking legible right like they have to articulate themselves. What about this is supposed to be legible because the black bounce output gets produced like one token at a time. Yes what a truly dreadful like you're really reaching here I mean like it's like Humans would be much dumber if they weren't allowed to use a pencil and paper or the word evenYeah people like a couple of pencil and paper to the gpt and it gets smarter, right? Yeah, no, I But it mean on a more like Uh if for example every time you thought thought like or

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