Today I’m reacting to David Shapiro’s latest YouTube video: “Pausing AI is a spectacularly bad idea―Here's why”.

In my opinion, every plan that doesn’t evolve pausing frontier AGI capabilities development now is reckless, or at least every plan that doesn’t prepare to pause AGI once we see a “warning shot” that enough people agree is terrifying.

We’ll go through David’s argument point by point, to see if there are any good points about why maybe pausing AI might actually be a bad idea.

00:00 Introduction

01:16 The Pause AI Movement

03:03 Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Epistemology

12:56 Rationalist Arguments and Evidence

24:03 Public Awareness and Legislative Efforts

28:38 The Burden of Proof in AI Safety

31:02 Arguments Against the AI Pause Movement

34:20 Nuclear Proliferation vs. AI

34:48 Game Theory and AI

36:31 Opportunity Costs of an AI Pause

44:18 Axiomatic Alignment

47:34 Regulatory Capture and Corporate Interests

56:24 The Growing Mainstream Concern for AI Safety

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