David Shapiro. David is a former engineer who became famous through his dozens of well-received tutorials on Youtube, covering everything from fine-tuning ChatGPT to his proposed solution to the alignment problem. His work focuses on ensuring that advanced technologies are used safely, bringing about an abundant, post-scarcity, post-nihilistic future.

Relevant episodes:

“Ep. 156: Algorithms won't get us to AGI | Johannes Jaeger”

“Ep. 153: AI, Alignment, and the Scaling Hypothesis | Dwarkesh Patel”

“Ep. 147: Could heuristic imperatives solve the AI alignment problem? | David Shapiro”

“Ep. 146: Will AI replace humans? | Peter St Onge”

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