David Pinsof is co-creator of the wildly popular Cards Against Humanity and a social science researcher at UCLA Social Minds Lab. He writes a blog called “Everything Is Bullshit”.
He sees AI doomers as making many different questionable assumptions, and he sees himself as poking holes in those assumptions.
I don’t see it that way at all; I think the doom claim is the “default expectation” we ought to have if we understand basic things about intelligence.
At any rate, I think you’ll agree that his attempt to poke holes in my doom claims on today’s podcast is super good-natured and interesting.
00:00 Introducing David Pinsof
04:12 David’s P(doom)
05:38 Is intelligence one thing?
21:14 Humans vs. other animals
37:01 The Evolution of Human Intelligence
37:25 Instrumental Convergence
39:05 General Intelligence and Physics
40:25 The Blind Watchmaker Analogy
47:41 Instrumental Convergence
01:02:23 Superintelligence and Economic Models
01:12:42 Comparative Advantage and AI
01:19:53 The Fermi Paradox for Animal Intelligence
01:34:57 Closing Statements
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