It was a very frustrating conversation to listen to, because Wolfram really hasn’t engaged his curiosity and done the reading on AI-kill-everyoneism. So we just got a torturous number of unnecessary and oblique diversions from Wolfram who didn’t provide any substantive foil to Eliezer
I’d really like to find Yudkowsky debates with better prepared AI optimists prepared to try and counter his points. Do any exist?
I asked GPT4o to perform a web search for podcast appearances by Yudkowsky. It dug up these twolists (apparently, autogenerated from scrapped data). When I asked it to base use these lists as a starting point to look for high quality debates and after some further elicitation and wrangling, the best we could find was this moderated panel discussion featuring Yudkowsky, Liv Boeree, and Joscha Bach. There’s also the Yudkowsky v/s George Hotz debate on Lex Fridman, and the time Yudkowsky debated AI risk with the streamer and political commentaror known as Destiny. I have watched none of the three debates I just mentioned; but I know that Hotz is a heavily vibes-based (rather than object-level-based) thinker, and that Destiny has no background in AI risk, but has good epistemics. I think he probably offered reasonable-at-first-approximation-yet-mostly-uninformed pushback.
EDIT: Upon looking a bit more at the Destiny-Yudkowsky discussion, i may have unwittingly misrepresented it a bit. It occurred during Manifest, and was billed as a debate. ChatGPT says Destiny’s skepticism was rather active, and did not budge much.
I might as well check out the panel discussion. I didn’t know about it.
I think I listened to the Hotz debate. The highlight of that one was when Hotz implied that he was using an LLM to drive a car, Yudkowsky freaks out a bit, and Hotz clarifies that he means the architecture for his learning algorithm is basically the same as an LLM.
I suspect the Destiny discussion is qualitatively similar to the Dwarkesh one.
At this point, maybe I should just read old MIRI papers.
It was a very frustrating conversation to listen to, because Wolfram really hasn’t engaged his curiosity and done the reading on AI-kill-everyoneism. So we just got a torturous number of unnecessary and oblique diversions from Wolfram who didn’t provide any substantive foil to Eliezer
I’d really like to find Yudkowsky debates with better prepared AI optimists prepared to try and counter his points. Do any exist?
I asked GPT4o to perform a web search for podcast appearances by Yudkowsky. It dug up these two lists (apparently, autogenerated from scrapped data). When I asked it to base use these lists as a starting point to look for high quality debates and after some further elicitation and wrangling, the best we could find was this moderated panel discussion featuring Yudkowsky, Liv Boeree, and Joscha Bach. There’s also the Yudkowsky v/s George Hotz debate on Lex Fridman, and the time Yudkowsky debated AI risk with the streamer and political commentaror known as Destiny. I have watched none of the three debates I just mentioned; but I know that Hotz is a heavily vibes-based (rather than object-level-based) thinker, and that Destiny has no background in AI risk, but has good epistemics. I think he probably offered reasonable-at-first-approximation-yet-mostly-uninformed pushback.
EDIT: Upon looking a bit more at the Destiny-Yudkowsky discussion, i may have unwittingly misrepresented it a bit. It occurred during Manifest, and was billed as a debate. ChatGPT says Destiny’s skepticism was rather active, and did not budge much.
I might as well check out the panel discussion. I didn’t know about it.
I think I listened to the Hotz debate. The highlight of that one was when Hotz implied that he was using an LLM to drive a car, Yudkowsky freaks out a bit, and Hotz clarifies that he means the architecture for his learning algorithm is basically the same as an LLM.
I suspect the Destiny discussion is qualitatively similar to the Dwarkesh one.
At this point, maybe I should just read old MIRI papers.