Dwarkesh
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1,722 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 25 Nov
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It's not you're asking Larry Summers, I'm asking Peter Navarro.
It's everybody goes to the super intelligent AI, asks it to tell us the exact shape of the future that happens in this case.
And I'm going to say we all believe it, although I can imagine people getting really conspiratorial about it and this not working.
I mean, then there are all of these other questions like, can we just enhance ourselves till we have IQ 300 and it's just as obvious to us as it is to super intelligent AI?
These are some of the reasons that kind of paradoxically, in our scenario, we discuss all of the big,
I don't want to call this a little question.
It's obviously very important.
But we discuss all of these very technical questions about the nature of superintelligence, and we barely even begin to speculate about what happens in society just because with superintelligence you can at least draw a line through the benchmarks and try to extrapolate.
And here, not only is society inherently chaotic, but there are so many things that we could be leaving out.
If we can enhance IQ, that's one thing.
If we can consult the superintelligent oracle,
That's another.
There have been several war games that hinge on, oh, we just invented perfect lie detectors.
Now all of our treaties are messed up.
So there's so much stuff like that, that even though we're doing this incredibly speculative thing that ends with a crazy sci-fi scenario, I still feel really reluctant to speculate.
I am also worried about UBI from a different perspective.
Like I think, again, in this world where everything goes perfectly and we have limitless prosperity, I think that just the default of limitless prosperity is that people do mindless consumerism.
I think there's going to be some incredible video games after super intelligent AI.
And I think that there's going to need to be some way to push back against that.
Again, we're classical liberals.
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