My interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky for If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies launch week is out!

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• 00:00:00 — Eliezer Yudkowsky Intro
• 00:01:25 — Recent validation of Eliezer's ideas
• 00:03:46 — Sh*t now getting real
• 00:08:47 — Eliezer's rationality teachings
• 00:10:39 — Rationality Lesson 1: I am a brain
• 00:13:10 — Rationality Lesson 2: Philosophy can reduce to AI engineering
• 00:17:19 — Rationality Lesson 3: What is evidence
• 00:22:41 — Rationality Lesson 4: Be more specific
• 00:28:34 — Specificity as a superpower in debates
• 00:30:19 — Rationality Lesson 5: How to spot a rationalization
• 00:36:52 — Rationality might upend your deepest expectations
• 00:38:18 — The typical reaction to superintelligence risk
• 00:40:07 — Eliezer is a techno-optimist, with a few exceptions
• 00:47:57 — Why AI is an existential risk
• 00:53:24 — Engineering outperforms biology
• 01:02:09 — The threshold of "supercritical" AI
• 01:13:23 — How to convince people there's [...]

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(03:17) Transcript

(03:20) Eliezers Background and Evolution of Views

(11:58) Rationality Fundamentals

(57:59) AI Capabilities and Intelligence Scale

(01:13:38) The Subcritical vs Supercritical Threshold

(01:33:41) The Alignment Problem

(01:57:14) What We Want from AI

(02:18:58) International Coordination Solutions

(02:44:54) Call to Action

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