Doom Tiffs #1: Amjad Masad, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Helen Toner, Roon, Lee Cronin, Naval Ravikant, Martin Casado, Yoshua Bengio
Description
In today’s episode, instead of reacting to a long-form presentation of someone’s position, I’m reporting on the various AI x-risk-related tiffs happening in my part of the world. And by “my part of the world” I mean my Twitter feed.
00:00 Introduction
01:55 Followup to my MSLT reaction episode
03:48 Double Crux
04:53 LLMs: Finite State Automata or Turing Machines?
16:11 Amjad Masad vs. Helen Toner and Eliezer Yudkowsky
17:29 How Will AGI Literally Kill Us?
33:53 Roon
37:38 Prof. Lee Cronin
40:48 Defining AI Creativity
43:44 Naval Ravikant
46:57 Pascal's Scam
54:10 Martin Casado and SB 1047
01:12:26 Final Thoughts
Links referenced in the episode:
* Eliezer Yudkowsky’s interview on the Logan Bartlett Show. Highly recommended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8q9bjNHeSo
* Double Crux, the core rationalist technique I use when I’m “debating”: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/exa5kmvopeRyfJgCy/double-crux-a-strategy-for-mutual-understanding
* The problem with arguing “by definition”, a classic LessWrong post: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cFzC996D7Jjds3vS9/arguing-by-definition
Twitter people referenced:
* Amjad Masad: https://x.com/amasad
* Eliezer Yudkowsky: https://x.com/esyudkowsky
* Helen Toner: https://x.com/hlntnr
* Roon: https://x.com/tszzl
* Lee Cronin: https://x.com/leecronin
* Naval Ravikant: https://x.com/naval
* Geoffrey Miller: https://x.com/primalpoly
* Martin Casado: https://x.com/martin_casado
* Yoshua Bengio: https://x.com/yoshua_bengio
* Your boy: https://x.com/liron
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