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Eliezer has been working on AI theory for 23 years, AI risks for 18. He foresaw what is happening today super long ago while practically everyone else on HN was
by reducesuffering 4y ago
Eliezer has been working on AI theory for 23 years, AI risks for 18. He foresaw what is happening today super long ago while practically everyone else on HN was asleep at the wheel. Call him crazy if you want, he's taking the wrong side of Pascal's wager. But, Sam Altman, who is leading all this, cares enough about his opinions that they have spoken in person. Musk agrees with him. Paul Graham, Andrej Karpathy, and Bezos follow him on Twitter.
- catchnear4321 4y agoPlenty of others could be described in a positive light that leans too hard on their association with powerful people as indication of their objective worth. How many talked to Epstein? He was good with money or something, and powerful people kept showing up with him. Even after his trial!
- dragonwriter 4y ago> But, Sam Altman, who is leading all this, cares enough about his opinions that they have spoken in person. Sam Altman has a financial interest in using AI doom fears to lobby for regulation that obstructs competitors, thereby serving OpenAI as an incumbent leader, and also as part of the PR machine justifying “Open”AI not being at all open, also for competitive reasons. Yudkowsky is a useful prop for Altman’s commercial interests.