Dr. Christof (Christoph) Koch

Because they're Marxists, they're liberalists, they're market people oriented, right?

They all believe we should maximize different things.

So we're just going to give this to the AI and they're going to figure it out somehow, right?

Or do you think when they'll be our overlords, then they'll figure out, well, for the peace of all humanity, this is what we have to impose?

Yeah, but look, I mean, I'm more with Steve Pinker here.

Over the last several hundred years, the total amount of violence, I mean, so my forefathers, you know, being German here, initiated World War II.

That led to killing in Europe probably, I mean, 20 million Russians alone, you know, 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, many millions more throughout Germany.

So...

You know, so I don't think in absolute terms, just in terms of number of people killed, it's nothing like... In World War I, every day, 10,000 soldiers died.

Every day for four years of the different size for essentially having accomplished nothing whatsoever, right?

For one mile going back and forth in the trench warfare on the Western Front.

So in terms of absolute numbers, this is...

It's not about absolute numbers.

It's now, of course, we have nuclear weapons and, you know, we have other nasty things.

But in terms of total people killed, it's still tiny fractions of what might happen and what has happened routinely over the last hundred years.

Yeah, so if I know where all your priors are in the brain, if I know the neural substrate of all your basic beliefs, this is what priors are, right?

It's just a fancy word.

All your beliefs of how you interpret humans' behavior in the light of culture and history and everything.

If I knew them, yes, then maybe we could swap and suddenly we would understand each other's point of view much better.

And maybe we are, you know, of the sort that your experience has.