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#116 — AI: Racing Toward the Brink

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Orthagonality Thesis

i don't think he's saying it's impossibleo empirically impossible, that we could build a system that would destroy us. It's just that we would have to be so stupid to take that path. I am claiming this is true for technical reasons, like this is true as a matter of computer sciencend. And the question is not which of these different narratives seems to resonate most with your soul. What do you think you know? How do you thinkyou know it?

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