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    Doom Debates!

    It’s time to talk about the end of the world. With your host, Liron Shapira.

    lironshapira.substack.com

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    AI Doom Q&A Jun 26, 2024
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    Today I'm answering questions from listener Tony Warren.

    1:16 Biological imperatives in machine learning2:22 Evolutionary pressure vs. AI training4:15 Instrumental convergence and AI goals6:46 Human vs. AI problem domains9:20 AI vs. human actuators18:04 Evolution and intelligence33:23 Maximum intelligence54:55 Computational limits and the future

    Follow Tony: https://x.com/Pove_iOS

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    Doom Debates catalogues all the different stops where people get off the "doom train", all the different reasons people haven’t (yet) followed the train of logic to the conclusion that humanity is doomed.

    If you'd like the full Doom Debates experience, it's as easy as doing 4 separate things:

    1. Join my Substack - https://doomdebates.com

    2. Search "Doom Debates" to subscribe in your podcast player

    3. Subscribe to YouTube videos - https://youtube.com/@doomdebates

    4. Follow me on Twitter - https://x.com/liron


    Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe

    AI Doom Debate: Will AGI’s analysis paralysis save humanity? Jun 22, 2024
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    My guest Rob thinks superintelligent AI will suffer from analysis paralysis from trying to achieve a 100% probability of killing humanity. Since AI won’t be satisfied with 99.9% of defeating us, it won’t dare to try, and we’ll live!

    Doom Debates catalogues all the different stops where people get off the “doom train”, all the different reasons people haven’t (yet) followed the train of logic to the conclusion that humanity is doomed.

    Follow Rob: https://x.com/LoB_Blacksage

    If you want to get the full Doom Debates experience, it's as easy as doing 4 separate things:

    1. Join my Substack - https://doomdebates.com

    2. Search "Doom Debates" to subscribe in your podcast player

    3. Subscribe to YouTube videos - https://youtube.com/@DoomDebates

    4. Follow me on Twitter - https://x.com/liron


    Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe

    Steven Pinker's Flimsy Arguments for AI Optimism Jun 21, 2024
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    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 optimistic that AI doom worries are overblown. But I find his arguments shallow, and I’m disappointed with his overall approach to the AI doom discourse.

    Here’s the full video of Steven Pinker talking to Michael C. Moynihan on this week’s episode of “Honestly with Bari Weiss”: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mTuH1Ucbif4

    If you want to get the full Doom Debates experience, it's as easy as doing 4 separate things:

    1. Join my Substack - https://doomdebates.com

    2. Search "Doom Debates" to subscribe in your podcast player

    3. Subscribe to YouTube videos - https://youtube.com/@DoomDebates

    4. Follow me on Twitter - https://x.com/liron


    Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe

    AI Doom Debate: What's a plausible alignment scenario? Jun 20, 2024
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    RJ, a pseudonymous listener, volunteered to debate me.

    Follow RJ: https://x.com/impershblknight

    If you want to get the full Doom Debates experience, it's as easy as doing 4 separate things:

    1. Join my Substack - https://doomdebates.com

    2. Search "Doom Debates" to subscribe in your podcast player

    3. Subscribe to YouTube videos - https://youtube.com/@doomdebates

    4. Follow me on Twitter - https://x.com/liron


    Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe

    Q&A: How scary is a superintelligent football coach? Jun 18, 2024
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    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 like Andy Reid is a great goal-to-action mapper. He's on the sidelines, but he knows exactly what actions his team needs to execute to achieve the goal and win the game.

    > But if he had a team of chimpanzees or elementary schoolers, or just players who did not want to cooperate, then his team would not execute his plans and they would lose. And even his very talented team of highly motivated players who also want to win the game, sometimes execute his actions badly. Now an intelligent AI that does not control a robot army has very limited ability to perform precise acts in the physical world. From within the virtual world, an AI would not be able to get animals or plants to carry out specific actions that it wants performed. I don't see how the AI could get monkeys or dolphins to maintain power plants or build chips.

    > The AI needs humans to carry out its plans, but in the real physical world, when dealing with humans, knowing what you want people to do is a small part of the equation. Won't the AI in practice struggle to get humans to execute its plans in the precise way that it needs?

    Follow Danny: https://x.com/Danno28_

    Follow Liron: https://x.com/liron

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    Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe

    AI Doom Debate: George Hotz vs. Liron Shapira Jun 17, 2024
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    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 debate, George had done a debate with Eliezer Yudkowsky on Dwarkesh Podcast:

    Follow George: https://x.com/realGeorgeHotz

    Follow Liron: https://x.com/liron


    Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe

    Should we gamble on AGI before all 8 billion of us die? Jun 16, 2024
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    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 still the highest-expected-utility decision for everyone.

    Who do you agree with? Comment on my Substack/X/YouTube and let me know!

    Follow Chase:https://x.com/ChaseMann

    Follow Liron:https://x.com/liron

    LessWrong has some great posts about cryonics: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/cryonics


    Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe

    Can humans judge AI's arguments? Jun 14, 2024
    Show notes

    It’s a monologue episode!

    Robin Hanson’s blog: https://OvercomingBias.com

    Robin Hanson’s famous concept, the Great Filter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

    Robin Hanson’s groundbreaking 2021 solution to the Fermi Paradox: https://GrabbyAliens.com

    Robin Hanson’s conversation with Ronny Fernandez about AI doom from May 2023:

    My tweet about whether we can hope to control superintelligent AI by judging its explanations and arguments: https://x.com/liron/status/1798135026166698239

    Zvi Mowshowitz’s blog where he posts EXCELLENT weekly AI roundups: https://thezvi.wordpress.com

    A takedown of Chris Dixon (Andreessen Horowitz)’s book about the nonsensical “Web3” pitch, which despite being terribly argued, is able to trick a significant number of readers into thinking they just read a good argument: https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chris-dixon/(Or maybe you think Chris’s book makes total sense, in which case you can observe that a significant number of smart people somehow don’t get how much sense it makes.)

    Eliezer Yudkowsky’s famous post about Newcomb’s Problem: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6ddcsdA2c2XpNpE5x/newcomb-s-problem-and-regret-of-rationality


    Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe

    What this "Doom Debates" podcast is about Jun 12, 2024
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    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 Liron’s credentials?

    * Is someone “rational” like Liron actually just a religious cult member?

    Follow Ori on Twitter: https://x.com/ygrowthco

    Make sure to subscribe for more episodes!


    Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe

    AI Doom Debate: Liron Shapira vs. Kelvin Santos Jun 10, 2024
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    Kelvin is optimistic that the forces of economic competition will keep AIs sufficiently aligned with humanity by the time they become superintelligent.

    He thinks AIs and humans will plausibly use interoperable money systems (powered by crypto).

    So even if our values diverge, the AIs will still uphold a system that respects ownership rights, such that humans may hold onto a nontrivial share of capital with which to pursue human values.

    I view these kinds of scenarios as wishful thinking with probability much lower than that of the simple undignified scenario I expect, wherein the first uncontrollable AGI correctly realizes what dodos we are in both senses of the word.


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