80 - Tom Chivers - Intelligences Artificial and Human

Tom Chivers, The AI Does Not Hate You: Superintelligence, Rationality and the Race to Save the World (2019); alternative title The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy: Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity’s Future

Follow Tom on Twitter @TomChivers

Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014)

Toby Ord, The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity (2020)

Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality: From AI to Zombies (2015)

Fantasia(1940) - The Sorcerer's Apprentice, First Part - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VErKCq1IGIU

Fantasia(1940) - The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Second Part - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcesnqVF0us

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973)

Stuart J. Russell, Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control (2019)

LessWrong
https://www.lesswrong.com/

Astral Codex Ten (substack.com)
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/

Timestamps
05:23 Why the AI threat is more like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice than The Terminator
15:13 What does it mean to be intelligent?
18:57 “The map is not the territory.”
21:53 Judging veracity based on psychology not facts, the rationalists
28:51 Why the singularity would be so uniquely dangerous
41:41 Utilitarian approaches to suffering
53:50 What the rationalists are like in person