Sam Harris

Basically right next to Eliezer Yudkowsky in his level of concern.

That's right.

Why?

I mean, it's not that he got more information, really.

So how do you explain his journey?

I think it was just that he, I mean, this has always been a non sequitur from my point of view, but it was just his sense, I think, this is what he said publicly, that the time horizon suddenly collapsed.

We just suddenly made much more progress than anyone was expecting.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I still have no theory of mind for the people who are not worried now about anything.

Everything from the comparatively benign, like just economic dislocation and wealth concentration that's unsustainable politically to the genuine concerns about alignment, that we could build something that we are now trying to negotiate with that has more power than we have and we can't take the power back.

And we know that some of the principal people doing this work, people like Sam Altman and

Elon Musk or were people who were at first as worried as anyone.

Correct.

And I mean, they were just, they were proper doomers.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And, uh, you know, uh, Elon had his whole summoning the demon framing, but now there are two of whatever the five who are in this arms race condition.

So much has happened to his brain that it's very hard to explain who he is now.