Max Tegmark
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first heard Aug 2018
last heard 3 Nov
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And then gradually, it's gonna make it really, really terrible.
So just as a simple, the way I think of the proof is,
Suppose you want to go from here back to Austin, for example, and you're like, okay, yeah, let's just, let's go south, but you put in exactly the right sort of the right direction.
Just optimize that south as possible.
You get closer and closer to Austin.
But there was always some little error.
So you're not going exactly towards Austin, but you get pretty close.
But eventually, you start going away again.
And eventually, you're going to be leaving the solar system.
Yeah.
And they proved it.
It's beautiful mathematical proof.
This happens generally.
And this is very important for AI.
Because even though Stuart Russell has...
written a book and given a lot of talks on why it's a bad idea to have AI just blindly optimize something.
That's what pretty much all our systems do.
We have something called the loss function that we're just minimizing or reward function we're just maximizing.
And capitalism is exactly like that too.
We wanted to get stuff done more efficiently than people wanted.
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