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0:00 Robin’s history of thinking about the future
2:20 Seeing AI as offspring, not adversary
14:26 Robin’s famous answer to a great cosmic mystery
24:53 Would evidence of aliens be good news or bad?
33:55 Is rationalist culture cultist?
43:51 LLMs: revolution or hype cycle?
55:29 Heading to Overtime

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Robin Hanson (George Mason University, The Elephant in the Brain, Overcoming Bias). Recorded April 02, 2024.

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Overtime titles:
0:00 What LLMs do and don’t tell us about the human mind (according to Bob).
10:19 Is regulating or not regulating AI more dangerous?
17:04 Robin demystifies the sacred.
25:57 What are humanity’s “future filters”?
28:46 Rationalism’s Yudkowskian fork: a history.
35:21 “Grey goo” and the trouble with techno-pessimism.

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