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#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Power Gap of Time

The difference that separates humans from chimpanzees is so large that you like ask people to be like well human chimpanzee go another step along that interval of around the same length and people's minds just go blank. So I can try to like break it down and consider what it would mean to send a schematic for an air conditioner 1000 years back in time yeah now I think that there is a sense in which you could redefine the word magic to refer to this sort of thing. To very slow aliens it's just focusing on the speed part of it that helps you get the right kind of intuition forget the intelligencejust because people understand the power gap of time they understand that today we have technology that

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