Liron Reacts to Mike Israetel's "Solving the AI Alignment Problem"

Dr. Mike Israetel is a well-known bodybuilder and fitness influencer with over 600,000 Instagram followers, and a surprisingly intelligent commentator on other subjects, including a whole recent episode on the AI alignment problem:Mike brought up many interesting points that were worth responding to, making for an interesting reaction episode. I also appreciate that he’s helping get the urgent topic of AI alignment in front of a mainstream audience.Unfortunately, Mike doesn’t engage with the possibility that AI alignment is an intractable technical problem on a 5-20 year timeframe, which I think is more likely than not. That’s the crux of why he and I disagree, and why I see most of his episode as talking past most other intelligent positions people take on AI alignment. I hope he’ll keep engaging with the topic and rethink his position.00:00 Introduction03:08 AI Risks and Scenarios06:42 Superintelligence Arms Race12:39 The Importance of AI Alignment18:10 Challenges in Defining Human Values26:11 The Outer and Inner Alignment Problems44:00 Transhumanism and AI's Potential45:42 The Next Step In Evolution47:54 AI Alignment and Potential Catastrophes50:48 Scenarios of AI Development54:03 The AI Alignment Problem01:07:39 AI as a Helper System01:08:53 Corporations and AI Development01:10:19 The Risk of Unaligned AI01:27:18 Building a Superintelligent AI01:30:57 ConclusionFollow Mike Israetel:* instagram.com/drmikeisraetel* youtube.com/@MikeIsraetelMakingProgressGet the full Doom Debates experience:* Subscribe to youtube.com/@DoomDebates* Subscribe to this Substack: DoomDebates.com* Search "Doom Debates" to subscribe in your podcast player* Follow me at x.com/liron Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe

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