Stuart Russell
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1,902 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2018
last heard 24 Jun
Stuart Russell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's one series of novels people point to where humans and superintelligent AI systems coexist.
It's called The Culture Novels by Ian Banks.
Highly recommended for those people who like science fiction.
And there, absolutely, the AI systems exist.
are only concerned with furthering human interests.
They find humans a bit boring, but nonetheless, they are there to help.
But the problem is, in that world, there's still nothing to do.
To find purpose, in fact,
The subgroup of humanity that has purpose is the subgroup whose job it is to expand the boundaries of our galactic civilization, some cases fighting wars against alien species and so on, right?
So that's the sort of cutting edge.
And that's 0.001% of the population.
Everyone else is desperately trying to get into that group so they have some purpose in life.
Yeah, so the age of abundance for Elon.
It's not that it's absolutely impossible.
to have a worthwhile world of that, you know, with that premise.
and maybe people still listen to podcasts I hope so for your sake it feels a little bit like a cruise ship
And, you know, and there are some cruises where, you know, it's smarty pants people and they have, you know, they have lectures in the evening about ancient civilizations and whatnot.
And some are more popular entertainment.
And this is, in fact, if you've seen the film Wall-E, this is one picture of that future.
In fact, in Wall-E...
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