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Eliezer Yudkowsky - Why AI Will Kill Us, Aligning LLMs, Nature of Intelligence, SciFi, & Rationality

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The Evolution of Apostasy

The rates of apostasy are probably below 50% in any religion, right? Like some people do leave but often they just become the thing they're imitating as a child. But I mean I think we're probably in a more virtuous situation with ML because these systems are kind of through stochastic gradient descent sort of regularized. Over time you like the system that is just being the thing will be optimized, right? It'll just be simpler.

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