Doom Tiffs #1: Amjad Masad, Roon, Lee Cronin, Naval Ravikant, Martin Casado

In today’s episode, instead of reacting to a long-form presentation of someone’s position, I’m reporting on the various AI x-risk-related tiffs happening in my part of the world. And by “my part of the world” I mean my Twitter feed.

00:00 Introduction

01:55 Followup to my MSLT reaction episode

03:48 Double Crux

04:53 LLMs: Finite State Automata or Turing Machines?

16:11 Amjad Masad vs. Helen Toner and Eliezer Yudkowsky

17:29 How Will AGI Literally Kill Us?

33:53 Roon

37:38 Prof. Lee Cronin

40:48 Defining AI Creativity

43:44 Naval Ravikant

46:57 Pascal's Scam

54:10 Martin Casado and SB 1047

01:12:26 Final Thoughts

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Links referenced in the episode:

• Eliezer Yudkowsky’s interview on the Logan Bartlett Show. Highly recommended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8q9bjNHeSo

• Double Crux, the core rationalist technique I use when I’m “debating”: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/exa5kmvopeRyfJgCy/double-crux-a-strategy-for-mutual-understanding

• The problem with arguing “by definition”, a classic LessWrong post: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cFzC996D7Jjds3vS9/arguing-by-definition

Twitter people referenced:

• Amjad Masad: https://x.com/amasad

• Eliezer Yudkowsky: https://x.com/esyudkowsky

• Helen Toner: https://x.com/hlntnr

• Roon: https://x.com/tszzl

• Lee Cronin: https://x.com/leecronin

• Naval Ravikant: https://x.com/naval

• Geoffrey Miller: https://x.com/primalpoly

• Martin Casado: https://x.com/martin_casado

• Yoshua Bengio: https://x.com/yoshua_bengio

• Your boy: https://x.com/liron

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