Dwarkesh Patel
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19,288 appearances
62 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2024
last heard 17 Sep
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And let's just say it was a horrific accident and the virus escaped.
It killed millions of people.
If people are building AIs, there are unknown consequences.
We're just people.
It doesn't matter how smart we are.
There is a limit to how much we know and we understand, and nobody can predict the future.
So we can create this with the best intentions in the world and not realize what the long-term effects are going to be, not even three or five or 10 years down the line, but 50 years down the line.
Because everything is understood in context.
So even the poorest person is wealthy compared to somebody from 300 years ago.
But they don't feel that way because they go on Instagram.
Yeah.
And they see somebody else, you know, on a yacht, smoking a cigar, having a great time, or they go, I can't buy this property, I can't buy this, or I can't do that.
And that creates resentment.
And where you have resentment, that's where things start to get a little bit funky.
And it's also, as well, there'll be a lot of people in the US and the UK who won't mind mass surveillance, particularly if the world becomes more and more unstable.
We see a rise in terrorism.
And the government goes, look, you're worried about the latest terrorist organization, whoever they may be.
You're worried about your children's safety.
We can protect you.
Now, it's going to mean that you're going to give up a few things.
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