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Doom Debates

Can humans judge AI's arguments?

Jun 14, 2024
33:29

It’s a monologue episode!

Robin Hanson’s blog: https://OvercomingBias.com

Robin Hanson’s famous concept, the Great Filter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

Robin Hanson’s groundbreaking 2021 solution to the Fermi Paradox: https://GrabbyAliens.com

Robin Hanson’s conversation with Ronny Fernandez about AI doom from May 2023:

My tweet about whether we can hope to control superintelligent AI by judging its explanations and arguments: https://x.com/liron/status/1798135026166698239

Zvi Mowshowitz’s blog where he posts EXCELLENT weekly AI roundups: https://thezvi.wordpress.com

A takedown of Chris Dixon (Andreessen Horowitz)’s book about the nonsensical “Web3” pitch, which despite being terribly argued, is able to trick a significant number of readers into thinking they just read a good argument: https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chris-dixon/(Or maybe you think Chris’s book makes total sense, in which case you can observe that a significant number of smart people somehow don’t get how much sense it makes.)

Eliezer Yudkowsky’s famous post about Newcomb’s Problem: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6ddcsdA2c2XpNpE5x/newcomb-s-problem-and-regret-of-rationality



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