Daniel Kokotajlo

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687 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 19 Jun

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Dwarkesh Podcast · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025 podcast

It's, you know, if you told Madison and Hamilton and so forth that... They probably, I mean, they knew that they were doing something important when they were writing the Constitution.

They probably didn't realize...

just how contingent things turned out on a single, what exactly did they mean when they said general welfare?

And why is this comma, the comma being here instead of there?

The spec in the grand scheme of things is going to be an even more sort of important document in human history.

At least if you buy this intelligence explosion view, which we've gone through the debates on that.

And you might even imagine some super human AIs in the super human AI court being like the spec.

Here's the phrasing here, the etymology of that.

Here's what the founders meant.

Yeah.

Interstate commerce.

The thing I want to point out is that your conclusions about where the world ends up as a result of changing many of these parameters is almost like a hash function.

You change it slightly and you just get a very different world on the other end.

And it's important to acknowledge that because

You sort of want to know how robust this whole end conclusion is to any part of this story changing.

And then it also informs if you do believe that things could just go one way or another.

You don't want to do big radical moves that only make sense under one specific story and are really counterproductive in other stories.

And I think nationalization might be one of them.

And in general, I think...

Classical liberalism just has been a helpful way to navigate the world when we're under this kind of epistemic hell of one thing changing just – you know, people who have – yeah.

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