Episode · Dwarkesh Podcast · 2023-04-06
Books mentioned on Eliezer Yudkowsky — Why AI will kill us, aligning LLMs, nature of intelligence, SciFi, & rationality
For 4 hours, I tried to come up reasons for why AI might not kill us all, and Eliezer Yudkowsky explained why I was wrong. We also discuss his call to halt AI, why LLMs make alignment harder, what it would take to save humanity, his millions of words of sci-fi, and much more.
Eliezer Yudkowsky discussed Adaptation and Natural Selection by George Christopher Williams and Natural Selection by George Christopher Williams.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Adaptation and Natural Selection
Discussed“And the Williams Revolution as is sometimes called, is when George Williams wrote Adaptation and Natural Selection, a very influential book. Saying like that is not what this optimization criterion gives you.”
Where to get it
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Natural Selection
Discussed“And the Williams Revolution as is sometimes called, is when George Williams wrote Adaptation and Natural Selection, a very influential book. Saying like that is not what this optimization criterion gives you.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“And the whole reason why Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is popular is because people read it and picked up the rhythm seen in a character’s thoughts of a thing that was not in their schooling system”