AI Will Kill Us All — Liron Shapira on The Flares

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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