159 - We’re All Gonna Die with Eliezer Yudkowsky
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4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2023
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
Eliezer Yudkowsky is an author, founder, and leading thinker in the AI space.
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✨ DEBRIEF | Unpacking the episode:
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We wanted to do an episode on AI… and we went deep down the rabbit hole. As we went down, we discussed ChatGPT and the new generation of AI, digital superintelligence, the end of humanity, and if there’s anything we can do to survive.
This conversation with Eliezer Yudkowsky sent us into an existential crisis, with the primary claim that we are on the cusp of developing AI that will destroy humanity.
Be warned before diving into this episode, dear listener. Once you dive in, there’s no going back.
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Topics Covered
0:00 Intro
10:00 ChatGPT
16:30 AGI
21:00 More Efficient than You
24:45 Modeling Intelligence
32:50 AI Alignment
36:55 Benevolent AI
46:00 AI Goals
49:10 Consensus
55:45 God Mode and Aliens
1:03:15 Good Outcomes
1:08:00 Ryan’s Childhood Questions
1:18:00 Orders of Magnitude
1:23:15 Trying to Resist
1:30:45 Miri and Education
1:34:00 How Long Do We Have?
1:38:15 Bearish Hope
1:43:50 The End Goal
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Resources:
Eliezer Yudkowsky
https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky
MIRI
https://intelligence.org/
Reply to Francois Chollet
https://intelligence.org/2017/12/06/chollet/
Grabby Aliens
https://grabbyaliens.com/
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| 0:00.0 | I think that we are hearing the last wins to start to blow, the fabric of reality start |
| 0:05.4 | to fray. |
| 0:06.4 | This thing alone cannot end the world, but I think that probably some of the vast quantities |
| 0:14.0 | of money being blindly and helplessly piled into here are going to end up actually accomplishing |
| 0:19.2 | something. |
| 0:22.5 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance. |
| 0:26.5 | This is how to get started, how to get better, how to frontrun the opportunity. |
| 0:30.2 | This is Ryan Sean Adams, I'm here with David Hoffman, and we're here to help you become |
| 0:34.6 | more bankless. |
| 0:35.6 | Okay, guys, we wanted to do an episode on AI at bankless. |
| 0:40.5 | You got what we asked for. |
| 0:42.2 | But I feel like David, we accidentally waited into the deep end of the bull year. |
| 0:47.4 | And I think, before we get into this episode, it probably warrants a few comments. |
| 0:50.8 | I'm going to say a few things I'd like to hear from you too, but one thing I want to tell |
| 0:54.6 | the listeners, don't listen to this episode if you're not ready for an existential crisis. |
| 1:00.3 | Okay, I'm kind of serious about this. |
| 1:03.1 | I'm leaving this episode shaken, and I don't say that lightly. |
| 1:08.4 | In fact, David, I think you and I will have some things to discuss in the debrief as |
| 1:11.6 | far as how this impacted you, but this wasn't an impactful one, it sort of hit me during |
| 1:16.8 | the recording. |
| 1:17.8 | And I didn't know fully how to react. |
| 1:20.7 | I honestly am coming out of this episode wanting to refute some of the claims made in this |
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