#39 Connor Leahy - Mindviruses & how to kill them?

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#39 Connor Leahy - Mindviruses & how to kill them?

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Bold Conjectures with Paras Chopra

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@rowanwilliams7441 3 ай бұрын

Connor, whether right or wrong, but so usually right in my opinion, your depth of Distilled thought around such complex topics... and ive watched and read a lot of your thoughts as for eg displayed in such a short time frame such as this vid leaves me in awe of you. Yuur a GOOD man. Your a thoughtful and compassionate man.

@enermaxstephens1051 3 ай бұрын

I wouldn't be so sure that everything is mechanistic, Connor. But you're young, you'll learn more about that as you get older.

@AureliusEnterprises 3 ай бұрын

You probably shouldn't be this condescending towards someone who is much smarter than you.

@enermaxstephens1051 3 ай бұрын

@@AureliusEnterprises You just did the exact same thing. We can tell how smart you are by your assumptions.

@flickwtchr 3 ай бұрын

We are all ears, make your counter points. Perhaps just one? No doubt Connor would engage them respectfully.

@enermaxstephens1051 3 ай бұрын

@@flickwtchr I can't teach you (or Connor) an entire philosophy developed over thousands of years in a few sentences. Suffice to say he's wrong unless he meant that in a certain way, which I'll grant is possible. Because he didn't elaborate further after that. But there's a good one for you - is philosophy mechanistic? It wasn't a smart thing to say because it sounds too much like materialism and materialism is for morons. We've seen enough at this point to know that.

@ashutoshpadhi2782 4 ай бұрын

paras, finally bold conjectures is back... congratulations

@boldconjectureswithparasch6382 4 ай бұрын

Taking it slow. About 1 episode per year is the ideal pace :)

@ashutoshpadhi2782 4 ай бұрын

@@boldconjectureswithparasch6382 Isn't it too slow ? What's the thought process behind, aren't you getting enough time ?

@DeruwynArchmage 2 ай бұрын

I want to work on AI explicitly to find a way to make it safe (or at least safer). I was always interested in AI, so maybe I’m biased because I’d also want to work on it if safety weren’t an issue. I don’t think I can have a significant impact on how this goes any other way. But I can at least have a possibility of steering the future down a better path if I try to nudge it in this way. Anything else I can do has no impact. I’ve tried communicating and I mostly don’t get anywhere. Everyone else seems to have their head in the sand. Often deliberately (believe what their paycheck says they should). I’ve convinced the occasional person, but they’re never anyone who has any ability to do anything. I have some ideas that I think will mostly just make AI work better. But I have others that really should help with safety. Almost anything for safety is dual use though. It helps you get it to do what you wanted.

@context_eidolon_music Ай бұрын

Leahy finally throws down just how smart he is when he says the EU is a god. Time to place his opinions safely in to the trash.

@paxdriver 4 ай бұрын

56:02 if you respect a person's autonomy, and if you believe in pursuing a true democracy, you have a duty to tell everyone about every monster you know of so they can vote accordingly, be defensive in the right situations, write Congress a simple letter to express interests, and anyone with a moral compass can contribute to establishing laws which suit everyone. It's nothing but ego mania to presume you're expressing love by not teaching others what you know about the world. That's the mentality that perpetrates prejudice, supremacy, elitism, and all other brands of dominance we abhor. ~2cent

@ilidemi 3 ай бұрын

If they have the capacity to hold the "bad news" without being able to do anything about it, yes. If the news are very bad but they can channel that energy into a productive action and sleep well that night, also yes. If they can't actually expect their letter to Congress to have impact (due to writing skills, or subject matter knowledge, or the recipient not understanding tech, or the congresspeople not being able to coordinate), that will just put a burden on the person and make them less effective at the responsibilities they already have and were taking action on.

@flickwtchr 3 ай бұрын

He's doing a pretty horrible job of not warning others apparently.

@tusarista398 3 ай бұрын

I think he was talking about Beff Jezos in 13:49

@shrutisrivastava8740 4 ай бұрын

Paras, what software do you use for recording the conversation? Is it something like zencaster?

@paraschopra 4 ай бұрын

Zoom

@41-Haiku 3 ай бұрын

For everyone out there who wants to fight the demons face-to-face, consider joining PauseAI. I want my nieces and nephews to have the chance to grow up.

@Ed-ty1kr 3 ай бұрын

The problem is still the same as it always had been, greed. Empires fall due to greed, children starve due to greed, homelessness is due to greed, war, murder, theft, drug dealing, you name it... greed greed greed. I mean even biblically from genesis to day zero on the calendar, meaning Christs original message and the reason he was crucified, is greed. All the worlds problems always had and always will be due to one thing... GREED.

@Alice_Fumo Ай бұрын

While all the issues you listed are at least sometimes caused by greed, they certainly wouldn't stop existing if greed simply wasn't a thing. Real life problems are always multi-faceted and complicated and very rarely have any single point of action to solve them. For example I could also list corruption as a singular cause for most issues and suggest weeding out corruption as the solution to all the worlds problems, but it's not that easy (unfortunately)

@kekitech 4 ай бұрын

Turns out we are all just structures that happen when you run async conways game of life on fleshy bit in memory analogue computing.

@DeruwynArchmage 2 ай бұрын

Sorta, yeah. I think it’s not purely mechanistic (in the predestined sense). I think choice is a thing that atoms don’t preclude. But also, things like brain structures and neural pathways very strongly influence what we do. They narrow the choices and make some roads much easier to travel down than others.

@spridgejuice 2 ай бұрын

"gods" = hyperobjects

@liminal6823 2 ай бұрын

I JUST LOST THE GAME

@flickwtchr 3 ай бұрын

It's amazing how many AI bros insult Connor. It's pretty damn pathetic actually.

@Mynestrone 4 ай бұрын

Punch Cthulhu! Pause AI.

@jimdoom2276 2 ай бұрын

What grad students are gonna have 95 IQ...? Am I missing something?

@paxdriver 4 ай бұрын

5:00 scorpion answers the frog "because I'm a scorpion, it's my nature," or something to that effect. We are who and what we are, we need to make decisions with our nature in mind.

@SmileyEmoji42 4 ай бұрын

When discussing the extended "you", Connor should have referenced Dawkins', "The Extended Phenotype", a brilliant book, unfairly overshadowed by his earlier "The Selfish Gene", and the later god bashing (What a waste!)