
About this episode
This week Liron was interview by Gaëtan Selle on @the-flares about AI doom.
Cross-posted from their channel with permission.
Original source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Qi-54I9Zw
0:00:02 Guest Introduction
0:01:41 Effective Altruism and Transhumanism
0:05:38 Bayesian Epistemology and Extinction Probability
0:09:26 Defining Intelligence and Its Dangers
0:12:33 The Key Argument for AI Apocalypse
0:18:51 AI’s Internal Alignment
0:24:56 What Will AI's Real Goal Be?
0:26:50 The Train of Apocalypse
0:31:05 Among Intellectuals, Who Rejects the AI Apocalypse Arguments?
0:38:32 The Shoggoth Meme
0:41:26 Possible Scenarios Leading to Extinction
0:50:01 The Only Solution: A Pause in AI Research?
0:59:15 The Risk of Violence from AI Risk Fundamentalists
1:01:18 What Will General AI Look Like?
1:05:43 Sci-Fi Works About AI
1:09:21 The Rationale Behind Cryonics
1:12:55 What Does a Positive Future Look Like?
1:15:52 Are We Living in a Simulation?
1:18:11 Many Worlds in Quantum Mechanics Interpretation
1:20:25 Ideal Future Podcast Guest for Doom Debates
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