Q&A #1 Part 1: College, Asperger's, Elon Musk, Double Crux, Liron's IQ

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00:00 Introduction

01:17 Is OpenAI a sinking ship?

07:25 College Education

13:20 Asperger's

16:50 Elon Musk: Genius or Clown?

22:43 Double Crux

32:04 Why Call Doomers a Cult?

36:45 How I Prepare Episodes

40:29 Dealing with AI Unemployment

44:00 AI Safety Research Areas

46:09 Fighting a Losing Battle

53:03 Liron’s IQ

01:00:24 Final Thoughts

Explanation of Double Cruxhttps://www.lesswrong.com/posts/exa5kmvopeRyfJgCy/double-crux-a-strategy-for-mutual-understanding

Best Doomer Arguments

The LessWrong sequences by Eliezer Yudkowsky: https://ReadTheSequences.com

LethalIntelligence.ai — Directory of people who are good at explaining doom

Rob Miles’ Explainer Videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/robertmilesai

For Humanity Podcast with John Sherman - https://www.youtube.com/@ForHumanityPodcast

PauseAI community — https://PauseAI.info — join the Discord!

AISafety.info — Great reference for various arguments

Best Non-Doomer Arguments

Carl Shulman — https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/carl-shulman

Quintin Pope and Nora Belrose — https://optimists.ai

Robin Hanson — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTQb6N3_zu8

How I prepared to debate Robin Hanson

Ideological Turing Test (me taking Robin’s side): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNnoJnuOXFA

Walkthrough of my outline of prepared topics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=darVPzEhh-I

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