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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Future of Altruism

Even in the field of effective altruism you quite recently had people publishing papers about like ah yes well you know to get something at human level intelligence it needs to have like this many parameters. I think that EA's would now consider themselves less convinced by the very long paper on the argument from biology as to AGI being 30 years off for example. If you and if you give thumbs up to the AI whenever it can talk a human into agreeing with what it just said about alignment I am not sure you are training it to output sense because I have seen the nonsense that has gotten thumbs up over the years.

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