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  • So, you know Ross Scott, the Stop Killing Games guy?
    About 2 years ago he actually interviewed Yudkowsky. The context being that Ross discussed his article on one of his monthly streams, and expressed skepticism that there was any threat at all from AI. Yudkowsky got wind of his skepticism, and reached out to Ross to do a discussion with him about the topic. He also requested that Ross not do any research on him.
    And here it is…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxsAuxswOvM

    I can’t say I actually recommend watching it, because Yudkowsky spends the first 40 minutes of the discussion refusing to answer the question ā€œSo what is GPT-4, anyway?ā€ (It’s not exactly that question, but it’s pretty close).
    I don’t know what they discussed afterwards because I stopped watching it after that, but, well, it’s a thing that exists.







  • Also if you’re worried about digital clone’s being tortured, you could just… not build it. Like, it can’t hurt you if it never exists.

    Imagine that conversation:
    ā€œWhat did you do over the weekend?ā€
    ā€œBuilt an omnicidal AI that scours the internet and creates digital copies of people based on their posting history and whatnot and tortures billions of them at once. Just the ones who didn’t help me build the omnicidal AI, though.ā€
    ā€œWTF why.ā€
    ā€œBecause if I didn’t the omnicidal AI that only exists because I made it would create a billion digital copies of me and torture them for all eternity!ā€

    Like, I’d get it more if it was a ā€œWe accidentally made an omnicidal AIā€ thing, but this is supposed to be a very deliberate action taken by humanity to ensure the creation of an AI designed to torture digital beings based on real people in the specific hopes that it also doesn’t torture digital beings based on them.












  • Thing is, that by December 2023, the time of the archive, there was already a scandal with someone using ChatGPT to do the work of discovery. While he might have stopped doing PR work for DoNotPay by that time, he was willing to advertise the fact that he did do such PR work for such a company. It shows either a lack of due diligence in researching his clients, or maybe it was just a paycheque for him. Perhaps he thought he knew more than what he actually did. Or maybe there was something else, I’m not clairvoyant.
    It’s clear that he’s pivoted from that viewpoint, but it does make me curious what happened between then and now that caused him to become skeptical.