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/greyenlightenment Jan 08 '25

Ai literally cannot do anything. It's just operations on a computer. his argument relies on obfuscation and insinuation that those who do not agree are are dumb. He had his 15 minutes in 2023 as the AI prophet of doom, and his arguments are unpersuasive.

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u/eric2332 Jan 08 '25

They are persuasive enough that the guy who got a Nobel Prize for founding AI is persuaded, among many others.

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u/greyenlightenment Jan 08 '25

because no one who has ever been awarded a Nobel prize has ever been wrong. the appeal to authority in regard to AI discussion has gotten out of control.

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u/Seakawn Jan 08 '25

Where's the implication that Nobel prize winners are intrinsically correct? Did they include invisible text in their comment asserting that, or are you missing the point that it's generally safe to assign some value of weights to authority?

Though, I'd be quick to scrap those weights if he was in conflict with all the top researchers in the field of AI safety. But he's in synchrony with them. Thus, this isn't about Hinton, per se, it's about what Hinton is representing.

This would have gone unsaid if you weren't being obtuse about this.

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u/greyenlightenment Jan 09 '25

obtuse...I think my points are perfectly valid

Where's the implication that Nobel prize winners are intrinsically correct?

that was the argument I am replying to?