Max Tegmark
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2,248 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Aug 2018
last heard 3 Nov
Max Tegmark’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because that's the first step towards recursive self-improvement, which can take it from AGI to much higher levels.
Okay.
Oops, we've done that.
And another thing, high risk is connected to the internet.
Let it go to websites, download stuff on its own, talk to people.
Oops, we've done that already.
You know, Eliezer Yudkowsky, you said you interviewed him recently, right?
Yes, yes.
He had this tweet recently, which gave me one of the best laughs in a while, where he was like, hey, people used to make fun of me and say, you're so stupid, Eliezer, because you're saying...
You have to worry.
Obviously, developers, once they get to really strong AI, the first thing you're going to do is never connect it to the internet, keep it in a box where you can really study it.
So he had written it in the meme form, so it was like, then, and then that, and then now.
LOL, let's make a chatbot.
And the third thing, Stuart Russell, you know,
amazing AI researcher, he has argued for a while that we should never teach AI anything about humans.
Above all, we should never let it learn about human psychology and how you manipulate humans.
That's the most dangerous kind of knowledge you can give it.
Yeah, you can teach it all it needs to know about how to cure cancer and stuff like that, but don't let it read Daniel Kahneman's book about cognitive biases and all that.
And then
oops, LOL, let's invent social media recommender algorithms, which do exactly that.
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