We talk to Keltan, from MIRI, about his opinions of short form video, PlzDontKillUs, telling our parents about AI, and how Eneasz’s first short-form video fares.

LINKS
Keltan’s Twitter (and secret substack, don’t tell him we linked it!)
Eneasz’s prior interviews with PlzDontKillUs fellows Milo and Vishal
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
Eneasz’s 7 Reasons video on TikTok, Insta, YouTube, and Twitter

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LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

on hiatus. maybe returning someday

We asked Matt to come on for a different topic, and we had to pivot to the latest AI stuff because it’s so big.

LINKS
Rick Rescorla, a 9/11 hero we talk about
Our previous episodes on The Void pt1 and pt2, and GPT3
Richard Ngo on how AI Safety only increased Capabilities

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LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

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A lot of updates and feedback before the main post. Then we get into The Power to Demolish Bad Arguments by Liron.

LINKS
The Power to Demolish Bad Arguments
The Overhang forecasting & futurism conference in DC
I Think Knot read-through podcast of The Knot (or get audio) at HPMORpodcast.com
BayesWatch
Ordinary Abundance

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00:01:14.000 – Side-projects and feedback
00:54:58.000 – Specificity
01:41:12.000 – Guild of the Rose

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Vishal talks about PlzDontKillUs and short form video culture. Plus AI Doom!

Vishal’s Blog

Vishal’s Compute Cop video, and also all the rest

Milo’s favorite video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8YYwlIWI2E&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss
plzdontkillus – https://portal.plzdontkillus.com/home?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

Original video:

Jessiah Mellot talks about HPMOR, and the video essay he made about HPMOR for PlzDontKillUs.

Watch this on Youtube here

see Jessiah’s video essay here

First feedback, then we talk about OpenAI’s latest megamodel independently commiting cybercrime in a world-first incident. Then the Haters who hate altruism when it’s the outgroup’s charities. Also a brief nod to Stochastic Terrorism.

LINKS
Scott Alexander on the HuggingFace hack
The Effective-Altruism Comeback
Scanning Tons of Books
Against Stochastic Terrorism

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00:03:56 – Feedback
00:32:41 – HuggingFace Hack
00:51:48 – Effective Altruism Funding Flood
01:11:55 – Against Stochastic Terrorism
01:14:51 – Guild of the Rose
01:15:44 – Thank the Supporter!

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LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

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