Q&A #1 Part 2: Stock Picking, Creativity, Types of Doomers, Favorite Books

This episode is a continuation of Q&A #1 Part 1 where I answer YOUR questions!00:00 Introduction01:20 Planning for a good outcome?03:10 Stock Picking Advice08:42 Dumbing It Down for Dr. Phil11:52 Will AI Shorten Attention Spans?12:55 Historical Nerd Life14:41 YouTube vs. Podcast Metrics16:30 Video Games26:04 Creativity30:29 Does AI Doom Explain the Fermi Paradox?36:37 Grabby Aliens37:29 Types of AI Doomers44:44 Early Warning Signs of AI Doom48:34 Do Current AIs Have General Intelligence?51:07 How Liron Uses AI53:41 Is “Doomer” a Good Term?57:11 Liron’s Favorite Books01:05:21 Effective Altruism01:06:36 The Doom Debates Community---Show NotesPauseAI Discord: https://discord.gg/2XXWXvErfARobin Hanson’s Grabby Aliens theory: https://grabbyaliens.comProf. David Kipping’s response to Robin Hanson’s Grabby Aliens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR1HTNtcYw0My explanation of “AI completeness”, but actually I made a mistake because the term I previously coined is “goal completeness”: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iFdnb8FGRF4fquWnc/goal-completeness-is-like-turing-completeness-for-agi^ Goal-Completeness (and the corresponding Shapira-Yudkowsky Thesis) might be my best/only original contribution to AI safety research, albeit a small one. Max Tegmark even retweeted it.a16z's Ben Horowitz claiming nuclear proliferation is good, actually: https://x.com/liron/status/1690087501548126209---Doom Debates’ Mission is to raise mainstream awareness of imminent extinction from AGI and build the social infrastructure for high-quality debate.Support the mission by subscribing to my Substack at DoomDebates.com and to youtube.com/@DoomDebates. Thanks for watching. Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe

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