The Local Maximum with Max Sklar

Ep. 268 - Pascal's Mugging, Doomsday Clocks, and the AGI Debate


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Max discovers Pascal's Mugging, the counterpoint to Pascal's Wager. He speculates about the category of errors (and sometimes scams) made by doomsayers in every field including most recently general artificial intellgence.

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