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#133 – Max Tegmark on how a 'put-up-or-shut-up' resolution led him to work on AI and algorithmic news selection

80,000 Hours Podcast

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Is There a Difference Between a Tobacco Company and a Smoking Company?

A large corporation already is better thought of as an agent. Not yet super intelligence, but definitely more intelligent than any individual human being. Even the companies that work for the corporation themselves also get quite effectively brain washed by what the corporation wants them to believe. And so it's at least setting off the potential for the conversation to not be nearly as productive as it could be.

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