Finally a reality show specifically focused on people's conduct in the discourse around AI existential risk!

In today’s episode, instead of reacting to a long-form presentation of someone’s position, I’m reporting on the various AI x-risk-related tiffs happening in my part of the world. And by “my part of the world” I mean my Twitter feed.

00:00 Introduction
01:55 Followup to my MSLT reaction episode
03:48 Double Crux
04:53 LLMs: Finite State Automata or Turing Machines?
16:11 Amjad Masad vs. Helen Toner and Eliezer Yudkowsky
17:29 How Will AGI Literally Kill Us?
33:53 Roon
37:38 Prof. Lee Cronin
40:48 Defining AI Creativity
43:44 Naval Ravikant
46:57 Pascal's Scam
54:10 Martin Casado and SB 1047
01:12:26 Final Thoughts

Links referenced in the episode:
Eliezer Yudkowsky’s interview on the Logan Bartlett Show. Highly recommended:    • Eliezer Yudkowsky on if Humanity can ...  
Double Crux, the core rationalist technique I use when I’m “debating”: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/exa5k...
The problem with arguing “by definition”, a classic LessWrong post: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cFzC9...

Twitter people referenced:
Amjad Masad: https://x.com/amasad
Eliezer Yudkowsky: https://x.com/esyudkowsky
Helen Toner: https://x.com/hlntnr
Roon: https://x.com/tszzl
Lee Cronin: https://x.com/leecronin
Naval Ravikant: https://x.com/naval
Geoffrey Miller: https://x.com/primalpoly
Martin Casado: https://x.com/martin_casado
Your boy: https://x.com/liron


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