Eliezer Yudkowsky

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1,716 appearances 7 recordings 3 series first heard Mar 2015 last heard 13 Mar

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So I should be thinking more of trees.

The aliens can still be like alive and feeling.

We are not talking about the misalignment here.

We're talking about the taking over the world here.

Shutting down the factory farms.

You know, you say control.

Don't think of it as world domination.

Think of it as world optimization.

You want to get out there and shut down the factory farms and make the alien's world be not what the aliens wanted it to be.

They want the factory farms and you don't want the factory farms because you're nicer than they are.

But those all went through slow in our world.

And if you go through that through the aliens, millions of years are going to pass before anything happens that way.

Yeah, you want to leave the factory farms running for a million years while you figure out how to design new forms of social media or something?

What I'm trying to convey is the notion of what it means to be in conflict with something that is smarter than you.

And what it means is that you lose.

But this is more intuitively obvious to... For some people, that's intuitively obvious.

For some people, it's not intuitively obvious.

And we're trying to cross the gap of...

I'm asking you to cross that gap by using the speed metaphor for intelligence.

Sure.

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