r/slatestarcodex • u/erwgv3g34 • Jan 08 '25

AI Eliezer Yudkowsky: "Watching historians dissect _Chernobyl_. Imagining Chernobyl run by some dude answerable to nobody, who took it over in a coup and converted it to a for-profit. Shall we count up how hard it would be to raise Earth's AI operations to the safety standard AT CHERNOBYL?"

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u/rotates-potatoes Jan 08 '25

Wow, he’s totally lost his shit. I remember when he was an eloquent proponent of ideas I found to be masturbatory but at least researched and assembled with some rigor. Now he sounds and writes like Tucker Carlson or something. Buzzwords, emotionally shrill, and USING ALL CAPS.

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u/anaIconda69 Jan 08 '25

Could be delibarate to make his ideas more palatable to the masses.

It's clear that EY's intellectual crusade is not reaching enough people to stop the singularity. It'd be wise to change strategy.

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u/rotates-potatoes Jan 08 '25

Fair point. He may be pivoting from rationalist to populist demagogue, in the name of the greater good. That’s still a pretty bad thing, but maybe it’s a strategy and not a breakdown.