Doom Tiffs #1: Amjad Masad, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Helen Toner, Roon, Lee Cronin, Naval Ravikant, Martin Casado, Yoshua Bengio
Doom Tiffs #1: Amjad Masad, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Helen Toner, Roon, Lee Cronin, Naval Ravikant, Martin Casado, Yoshua Bengio  
Podcast: Doom Debates
Published On: Wed Sep 25 2024
Description: In today’s episode, instead of reacting to a long-form presentation of someone’s position, I’m reporting on the various AI x-risk-related tiffs happening in my part of the world. And by “my part of the world” I mean my Twitter feed.00:00 Introduction01:55 Followup to my MSLT reaction episode03:48 Double Crux04:53 LLMs: Finite State Automata or Turing Machines?16:11 Amjad Masad vs. Helen Toner and Eliezer Yudkowsky17:29 How Will AGI Literally Kill Us?33:53 Roon37:38 Prof. Lee Cronin40:48 Defining AI Creativity43:44 Naval Ravikant46:57 Pascal's Scam54:10 Martin Casado and SB 104701:12:26 Final ThoughtsLinks referenced in the episode:* Eliezer Yudkowsky’s interview on the Logan Bartlett Show. Highly recommended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8q9bjNHeSo* Double Crux, the core rationalist technique I use when I’m “debating”: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/exa5kmvopeRyfJgCy/double-crux-a-strategy-for-mutual-understanding* The problem with arguing “by definition”, a classic LessWrong post: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cFzC996D7Jjds3vS9/arguing-by-definitionTwitter people referenced:* Amjad Masad: https://x.com/amasad* Eliezer Yudkowsky: https://x.com/esyudkowsky* Helen Toner: https://x.com/hlntnr* Roon: https://x.com/tszzl* Lee Cronin: https://x.com/leecronin* Naval Ravikant: https://x.com/naval* Geoffrey Miller: https://x.com/primalpoly* Martin Casado: https://x.com/martin_casado* Yoshua Bengio: https://x.com/yoshua_bengio* Your boy: https://x.com/lironDoom Debates’ Mission is to raise mainstream awareness of imminent extinction from AGI and build the social infrastructure for high-quality debate.Support the mission by subscribing to my Substack at DoomDebates.com and to youtube.com/@DoomDebates. Thanks for watching. Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe