Eliezer Yudkowsky

So if you're looking for upcoming predictable big jumps in how many people think the system is conscious, the upcoming predictable big jump is it looks like a person talking to you.

who is like cute and sympathetic.

That's the upcoming predictable big jump.

Now that versions of it are already claiming to be conscious, which is the point where I start going like, ah, not because it's like real, but because from now on, who knows if it's real?

You know, I'm not an expert on that.

I'm, I could, I am God help humanity.

It's like one of the closest things to an expert on where it all goes.

Cause you know, and how did you end up with me as an expert?

Cause for 20 years, humanity decided to ignore the problem.

So like, like this tiny, you know, tiny handful of people, like basically me, like got 20 years to try to be an expert on it while everyone else ignored it.

And, yeah, so where does it all end up?

Try to be an expert on that, particularly the part where everybody ends up dead, because that part is kind of important.

But what does it do to dating when some fraction of men and some fraction of women decide that they'd rather date the video of the thing that is relentlessly kind and generous to them?

and claims to be conscious, but who knows what goes on inside it, and it's probably not real, but you can think it's real.

What happens to society?

I don't know.

I'm not actually an expert on that.

And the experts don't know either, because it's kind of hard to predict the future.

By longer term, we mean like, not all that long, but yeah, where it all ends up.

Yes, because that's not how the fate of the galaxy gets settled.