Q&A #1 Part 2: Stock Picking, Creativity, Types of Doomers, Favorite Books
Description
This episode is a continuation of Q&A #1 Part 1 where I answer YOUR questions!
00:00 Introduction
01:20 Planning for a good outcome?
03:10 Stock Picking Advice
08:42 Dumbing It Down for Dr. Phil
11:52 Will AI Shorten Attention Spans?
12:55 Historical Nerd Life
14:41 YouTube vs. Podcast Metrics
16:30 Video Games
26:04 Creativity
30:29 Does AI Doom Explain the Fermi Paradox?
36:37 Grabby Aliens
37:29 Types of AI Doomers
44:44 Early Warning Signs of AI Doom
48:34 Do Current AIs Have General Intelligence?
51:07 How Liron Uses AI
53:41 Is “Doomer” a Good Term?
57:11 Liron’s Favorite Books
01:05:21 Effective Altruism
01:06:36 The Doom Debates Community
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Show Notes
PauseAI Discord: https://discord.gg/2XXWXvErfA
Robin Hanson’s Grabby Aliens theory: https://grabbyaliens.com
Prof. David Kipping’s response to Robin Hanson’s Grabby Aliens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR1HTNtcYw0
My explanation of “AI completeness”, but actually I made a mistake because the term I previously coined is “goal completeness”: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iFdnb8FGRF4fquWnc/goal-completeness-is-like-turing-completeness-for-agi
^ Goal-Completeness (and the corresponding Shapira-Yudkowsky Thesis) might be my best/only original contribution to AI safety research, albeit a small one. Max Tegmark even retweeted it.
a16z's Ben Horowitz claiming nuclear proliferation is good, actually: https://x.com/liron/status/1690087501548126209
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