Doom Debates
Episodes
David Shapiro Part II: Unaligned Superintelligence Is Totally Fine?
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m reacting to David Shapiro’s response to my previous episode, and also to David’s latest episode with poker champion & effective altrui...
Maciej Ceglowski, Pinboard Founder, Says the Idea of Superintelligence “Eats Smart People” | Liron Reacts
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Maciej Ceglowski is an entrepreneur and owner of the bookmarking site Pinboard. I’ve been a long-time fan of his sharp, independent-minded blog post...
David Shapiro Doesn't Get PauseAI | Liron Reacts
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m reacting to David Shapiro’s latest YouTube video: “Pausing AI is a spectacularly bad idea―Here's why”.In my opinion, every plan th...
David Brooks's Non-Doomer Non-Argument in the NY Times | Liron Reacts
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Sherman and I go through David Brooks’s appallingly bad article in the New York Times titled “Many People Fear AI. They Shouldn’t.”For Hu...
Richard Sutton Dismisses AI Extinction Fears with Simplistic Arguments | Liron Reacts
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Richard Sutton is a Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta known for his pioneering work on reinforcement learning, and his “...
AI Doom Debate: “Cards Against Humanity” Co-Creator David Pinsof
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Pinsof is co-creator of the wildly popular Cards Against Humanity and a social science researcher at UCLA Social Minds Lab. He writes a blog cal...
P(Doom) Estimates Shouldn't Inform Policy??
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Princeton Comp Sci Ph.D. candidate Sayash Kapoor co-authored a blog post last week with his professor Arvind Narayanan called "AI Existential Risk Pro...
Liron Reacts to Martin Casado's AI Claims
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Casado is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) who has strong views about AI.He claims that AI is basically just a buzzword for stat...
AI Doom Debate: Tilek Mamutov vs. Liron Shapira
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tilek Mamutov is a Kyrgyzstani software engineer who worked at Google X for 11 years before founding his own international software engineer recruitin...
Liron Reacts to Mike Israetel's "Solving the AI Alignment Problem"
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Mike Israetel is a well-known bodybuilder and fitness influencer with over 600,000 Instagram followers, and a surprisingly intelligent commentator...
Robin Hanson Highlights and Post-Debate Analysis
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What did we learn from my debate with Robin Hanson? Did we successfully isolate the cruxes of disagreement? I actually think we did!In this post-debat...
Robin Hanson vs. Liron Shapira: Is Near-Term Extinction From AGI Plausible?
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Robin Hanson is a legend in the rationality community and one of my biggest intellectual influences.In 2008, he famously debated Eliezer Yudkowsky abo...
Preparing for my AI Doom Debate with Robin Hanson
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a comprehensive preparation session for my upcoming debate on AI doom with the legendary Robin Hanson.Robin’s P(doom) is I’ve rese...
Robin Hanson debate prep: Liron argues *against* AI doom!
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve been studying Robin Hanson’s catalog of writings and interviews in preparation for our upcoming AI doom debate. Now I’m doing an exercise w...
AI Doom Q&A
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today I'm answering questions from listener Tony Warren.1:16 Biological imperatives in machine learning2:22 Evolutionary pressure vs. AI training4:15 ...
AI Doom Debate: Will AGI’s analysis paralysis save humanity?
22 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest Rob thinks superintelligent AI will suffer from analysis paralysis from trying to achieve a 100% probability of killing humanity. Since AI wo...
Steven Pinker's Flimsy Arguments for AI Optimism
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m debating the one & only Professor Steven Pinker!!! Well, I kind of am, in my head. Let me know if you like this format…Dr. Pinker is opt...
AI Doom Debate: What's a plausible alignment scenario?
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
RJ, a pseudonymous listener, volunteered to debate me.Follow RJ: https://x.com/impershblknightIf you want to get the full Doom Debates experience, it'...
Q&A: How scary is a superintelligent football coach?
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Danny asks: You've said that an intelligent AI would lead to doom because it would be an excellent goal-to-action mapper. A great football coach lik...
AI Doom Debate: George Hotz vs. Liron Shapira
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m going to play you my debate with the brilliant hacker and entrepreneur, George Hotz.This took place on an X Space last August.Prior to our...
Should we gamble on AGI before all 8 billion of us die?
16 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chase Mann claims accelerating AGI timelines is the best thing we can do for the survival of the 8 billion people alive today.I claim pausing AI is st...
Can humans judge AI's arguments?
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a monologue episode!Robin Hanson’s blog: https://OvercomingBias.comRobin Hanson’s famous concept, the Great Filter: https://en.wikipedia.or...
What this "Doom Debates" podcast is about
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome and thanks for listening!* Why is Liron finally starting a podcast?* Who does Liron want to debate?* What’s the debate format?* What are Lir...
AI Doom Debate: Liron Shapira vs. Kelvin Santos
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kelvin is optimistic that the forces of economic competition will keep AIs sufficiently aligned with humanity by the time they become superintelligent...