Bret Weinstein

is effectively infinite but i would say that the harm is probably 10 times it's a bigger infinity and the question of how we are going to get to a place where we can leverage the obvious power that is here to do good and dodge the worst harms i have no idea i know we're not prepared so i i

is effectively infinite but i would say that the harm is probably 10 times it's a bigger infinity and the question of how we are going to get to a place where we can leverage the obvious power that is here to do good and dodge the worst harms i have no idea i know we're not prepared so i i

hear you talking about agents and i think that's marvelous we can all use such a thing right away and the more powerful it is the better the idea of something that can solve problems on your behalf while you're doing something else is marvelous but of course That is the precondition for absolute devastation to arise out of a miscommunication, right?

hear you talking about agents and i think that's marvelous we can all use such a thing right away and the more powerful it is the better the idea of something that can solve problems on your behalf while you're doing something else is marvelous but of course That is the precondition for absolute devastation to arise out of a miscommunication, right?

To have something acting autonomously to accomplish a goal, you damn well better understand what the goal really is and how to how to pull back the reins in the event that it starts accomplishing something that wasn't the goal. The potential for abuse is also utterly profound.

To have something acting autonomously to accomplish a goal, you damn well better understand what the goal really is and how to how to pull back the reins in the event that it starts accomplishing something that wasn't the goal. The potential for abuse is also utterly profound.

You know, you can imagine just pick your, your dark mirror, uh, fantasy dystopia where something has been told to hunt you down until you're dead. And it sees that as a, you know, a technical challenge. So I, I don't know quite how to balance a discussion about all of the things that can clearly come from this that are utterly transcendent.

You know, you can imagine just pick your, your dark mirror, uh, fantasy dystopia where something has been told to hunt you down until you're dead. And it sees that as a, you know, a technical challenge. So I, I don't know quite how to balance a discussion about all of the things that can clearly come from this that are utterly transcendent.

I mean, I do think it is not inappropriate to be invoking God or biblical metaphors here. You know, you're producing water seemingly from thin air. I believe that does have an exact biblical parallel. So any case, the power is here. But so too is the need for cautionary tales, which we don't have.

I mean, I do think it is not inappropriate to be invoking God or biblical metaphors here. You know, you're producing water seemingly from thin air. I believe that does have an exact biblical parallel. So any case, the power is here. But so too is the need for cautionary tales, which we don't have.

That's the problem, is that there's no body of myth that will warn us properly of this tool because we've just crossed a threshold that is similar in its capacity to alter the world as... the invention of writing, I really think that's where we are. We're talking about something that is going to fundamentally alter what humans are with no plan.

That's the problem, is that there's no body of myth that will warn us properly of this tool because we've just crossed a threshold that is similar in its capacity to alter the world as... the invention of writing, I really think that's where we are. We're talking about something that is going to fundamentally alter what humans are with no plan.

Writing alters the world slowly because the number of people who can do it is tiny at first and remains so for thousands of years. This is changing things weekly. And that's an awful lot of power to just simply have dumped on a system that wasn't well regulated to begin with.

Writing alters the world slowly because the number of people who can do it is tiny at first and remains so for thousands of years. This is changing things weekly. And that's an awful lot of power to just simply have dumped on a system that wasn't well regulated to begin with.

I applaud your optimism, and I like the way you think about these puzzles, but I think I see you making a mistake that we are about to discover is very commonplace. So we have several different categories of systems. We have simple systems. We have complicated systems. We have complex systems. And then we have complex adaptive systems. Mm-hmm.

I applaud your optimism, and I like the way you think about these puzzles, but I think I see you making a mistake that we are about to discover is very commonplace. So we have several different categories of systems. We have simple systems. We have complicated systems. We have complex systems. And then we have complex adaptive systems. Mm-hmm.

To most of us, a highly complicated system appears like a complex system. We don't understand the distinction. Technologists often master highly complicated systems and they know, you know, for example, a computer. It's a perfectly predictable system inside. It's deterministic. But to most of us, it functions, it is mysterious enough that it feels like a complex system.

To most of us, a highly complicated system appears like a complex system. We don't understand the distinction. Technologists often master highly complicated systems and they know, you know, for example, a computer. It's a perfectly predictable system inside. It's deterministic. But to most of us, it functions, it is mysterious enough that it feels like a complex system.

And if you're in the position of having mastered highly complicated systems and you look at complex systems and you think it's a natural extension, you fail to anticipate just how unpredictable they are. So even if it is true that today there are limits to what these machines can do based on their training data, I think the problem is you

And if you're in the position of having mastered highly complicated systems and you look at complex systems and you think it's a natural extension, you fail to anticipate just how unpredictable they are. So even if it is true that today there are limits to what these machines can do based on their training data, I think the problem is you