Joscha Bach has recently been debating existential risk from AI with Connor Leahy (previous guest of the podcast), and since their conversation was quite short I wanted to continue the debate in more depth.
The resulting conversation ended up being quite long (over 3h of recording), with a lot of tangents, but I think this gives a somewhat better overview of Joscha’s views on AI risk than other similar interviews. We also discussed a lot of other topics, that you can find in the outline below.
A raw version of this interview was published on Patreon about three weeks ago. To support the channel and have access to early previews, you can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/theinsideview
Transcript: https://theinsideview.ai/joscha
Host: https://twitter.com/MichaelTrazzi Joscha: https://twitter.com/Plinz
OUTLINE
00:00 Intro 01:37 Why Barbie Is Better Than Oppenheimer 09:35 The relationship between nuclear weapons and AI x-risk 13:31 Global warming and the limits to growth 21:04 Joscha’s reaction to the AI Political compass memes 24:33 On Uploads, Identity and Death 33:46 The Endgame: Playing The Longest Possible Game Given A Superposition Of Futures 38:11 On the evidence of delaying technology leading to better outcomes 41:29 Humanity is in locust mode 44:51 Scenarios in which Joscha would de…
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