Max Tegmark
speaker
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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These large corporations are not living things, right?
They're just maximizing profit.
I want to win the war on life.
I think we humans together with all our fellow living things on this planet will be better off if we can
remain in control over the non-living things and make sure that they work for us.
I really think it can be done.
First of all, I tremendously respect Elias Yudkowsky and his thinking.
Second, I do share his view that there's a pretty large chance that we're not going to make it as humans.
There won't be any humans on the planet in the not too distant future.
And that makes me very sad.
You know, we just had a little baby and I keep asking myself, you know, is...
how old is he even gonna get?
And I asked myself, it feels, I said to my wife recently, it feels a little bit like I was just diagnosed with some sort of cancer, which has some risk of dying from and some risk of surviving, except this is the kind of cancer which will kill all of humanity.
So I completely take seriously his concerns.
I think,
But I absolutely don't think it's hopeless.
I think there is, first of all, a lot of momentum now.
For the first time, actually, since the many, many years that have passed, since I and many others started warning about this, I feel most people are getting it now.
I was just talking...
this guy in the gas station near our house the other day my and he's like i think we're getting replaced and i think so that's positive that they're finally we're finally seeing this reaction which is the first step towards solving the problem uh second uh i really think that this this vision of only running ai's
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