Joe Wiesenthal
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And he's probably the most famous like AI alignment doomer, right?
As soon as we have AGI, the first thing it's going to do is wipe us out in some form.
And a bunch of people within the AI world are like, oh, it's crazy, and these rationalist people, it's a cult, and whatever.
But here's my counterargument.
These people have been more right about the trajectory of AI than 99.999% of the people in the world.
Yes, they have because they devoted their – yeah, here's why.
Your argument is probably, oh, well, he didn't believe – he thought LLMs were a dead-end architecture.
He didn't see it happening this way.
Sure, I agree.
But the point is that like in the 90s and early 2000s, he started thinking, whoa, general intelligence is going to be a really big deal soon.
The rest of us just started thinking about this with Chad.
This is a good point.
And then immediately started talking like a Nazi.
Because it was all like Tay, right?
That like Microsoft, like weird chat bot and started talking like a Nazi the next day.
It's really funny.
I thought it's like, let's maybe chill it with the pronouns and immediately go say hello.
That's the lesson.