Thank you for reminding me of these four documents. I had seen them, but I dismissed them early in the process. That might have been a mistake, and I’ll read them carefully now.
I think you did a great job at the interview. I describe one place where you could have pushed back more here:
https://youtu.be/_kNvExbheNA?t=1376
You asked: ”...Assume that among the things that these narrow AIs are really good at doing, one of them is programming AI...”, and Ben Garfinkel made a broad answer about “doing science”.
Unfortunately I read them nearly a year ago so my memory’s hazy. But (3) goes over most of the main arguments we talked about in the podcast step by step, though it’s just slides so you may have similar complaints about the lack of close analysis of the original texts.
(1) is a pretty detailed write up of Ben’s thoughts on discontinuities, sudden emergence, and explosive aftermath. To the extent that you were concerned about those bits in particular, I’d guess you’ll find what you’re looking for there.
Thanks! Agree that it’d would’ve been useful to push on that point some more.
I know Ben was writing up some additional parts of his argument at some point but I don’t know whether finishing that up is still something he’s working on.
Hi Howie,
Thank you for reminding me of these four documents. I had seen them, but I dismissed them early in the process. That might have been a mistake, and I’ll read them carefully now.
I think you did a great job at the interview. I describe one place where you could have pushed back more here: https://youtu.be/_kNvExbheNA?t=1376 You asked: ”...Assume that among the things that these narrow AIs are really good at doing, one of them is programming AI...”, and Ben Garfinkel made a broad answer about “doing science”.
On the documents:
Unfortunately I read them nearly a year ago so my memory’s hazy. But (3) goes over most of the main arguments we talked about in the podcast step by step, though it’s just slides so you may have similar complaints about the lack of close analysis of the original texts.
(1) is a pretty detailed write up of Ben’s thoughts on discontinuities, sudden emergence, and explosive aftermath. To the extent that you were concerned about those bits in particular, I’d guess you’ll find what you’re looking for there.
Thanks! Agree that it’d would’ve been useful to push on that point some more.
I know Ben was writing up some additional parts of his argument at some point but I don’t know whether finishing that up is still something he’s working on.