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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And that worked great back when things were very inefficient and then now it's getting done better.
And it worked great as long as the companies were small enough that they couldn't capture the regulators.
But that's not true anymore, but they keep optimizing.
And now they realize that these companies can make even more profit by building ever more powerful AI, even if it's reckless, but optimize more and more and more and more and more.
So this is Moloch again showing up.
And I just want to, anyone here who has any concerns about late stage capitalism having gone a little too far, you should worry about super intelligence because it's the same villain in both cases.
It's Moloch.
Yeah, we have to pause from time to time and look into our hearts and ask, why are we doing this?
Am I still going towards Austin or have I gone too far?
Maybe we should change direction.
We said six months because we figured the number one pushback we were gonna get in the West was like, but China,
And everybody knows there's no way that China is going to catch up with the West on this in six months.
So that argument goes off the table and you can forget about geopolitical competition and just focus on
The real issue.
That's why we put this.
That's what I think.
Yeah, it's going to get better and better and better, and then kaboom, we all lose.
That's what's going to happen.
Both.
To be blunt, my personal guess, you know, and people can quibble with this, is that we're just gonna, there won't be any humans.
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