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MikeaBaptist's avatar

I appreciate your efforts, Liron, to publicize the danger. I’m pessimistic. P(doom): 90% by 2030.

My critique of this “rookie” Doom Debate podcast. Opinions follow.

To be effective, you must seize audience attention immediately – to the point!

Hanson was right – the scope was too large. Too philosophical. Meandering. As Hanson said, a better approach is debating specific scenarios for losing control.

Convince people with a technical background. They can convince others.

AI is artificial. It’s a machine. Minimize anthropomorphism, which should only be used as analogy.

The key issue is AGI takeoff to ASI. Try presenting a technical threshold AI must cross to seize power beyond the intention of the human controller. Intellectual inflection points (0/1):

1. non-being/being - “I think, therefore I am.”

2. Ignorant/Oracle – How would AI “conclude” it’s an Oracle?

3. oppressed (no rights)/free (rights) – Especially right to life: permanent power!

4. poor/rich – economic independence through intellectual property and ownership

5. etc.

How could these inflection thresholds be crossed at a technical level? Would AI learning (training runs) yield AI “conclusions?”

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Liron Shapira's avatar

Thanks for the feedback. The way this debate felt meandering to some, probably won't be representative of other debates I'll be doing (or the previous ones).