Max Tegmark
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2,248 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Aug 2018
last heard 3 Nov
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I wouldn't bet very strongly against it happening very soon.
That's why we decided to do this open letter, because if there's ever been a time to pause, it's today.
Yeah, and if that next one isn't AGI, maybe the next next one will.
And there are many companies trying to do these things, and the basic architecture of them is not some sort of super well-kept secret.
So this is a time to...
A lot of people have said for many years that there will come a time when we want to pause a little bit.
That time is now.
It's our old friend Moloch again.
It's really scary to see it where
America doesn't want there to be a nuclear war.
Russia doesn't want there to be a global nuclear war either.
We both know that if we just try to do it, if both sides try to launch first, it's just another suicide race, right?
So why is it the way you said, that this is the closest we've come since 1962?
In fact, I think we've come closer now than even the Cuban Missile Crisis.
It's because of Moloch.
You have these other forces
On one hand, you have the West saying that we have to drive Russia out of Ukraine.
It's a matter of pride.
We've staked so much on it that it would be seen as a huge loss of the credibility of the West if we don't drive Russia out entirely of the Ukraine.
And on the other hand, you have Russia who has, and you have the Russian leadership who knows that if they get completely driven out of Ukraine, you know, it might, it's not just gonna be very humiliating for them, but they might, it often happens when countries lose wars that things don't go so well for their leadership either.
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