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AI Doom Debate: “Cards Against Humanity” Co-Creator David Pinsof

Aug 8, 2024
01:40:36

David Pinsof is co-creator of the wildly popular Cards Against Humanity and a social science researcher at UCLA Social Minds Lab. He writes a blog called “Everything Is B******t”.

He sees AI doomers as making many different questionable assumptions, and he sees himself as poking holes in those assumptions.

I don’t see it that way at all; I think the doom claim is the “default expectation” we ought to have if we understand basic things about intelligence.

At any rate, I think you’ll agree that his attempt to poke holes in my doom claims on today’s podcast is super good-natured and interesting.

00:00 Introducing David Pinsof

04:12 David’s P(doom)

05:38 Is intelligence one thing?

21:14 Humans vs. other animals

37:01 The Evolution of Human Intelligence

37:25 Instrumental Convergence

39:05 General Intelligence and Physics

40:25 The Blind Watchmaker Analogy

47:41 Instrumental Convergence

01:02:23 Superintelligence and Economic Models

01:12:42 Comparative Advantage and AI

01:19:53 The Fermi Paradox for Animal Intelligence

01:34:57 Closing Statements

Follow David: x.com/DavidPinsof

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