Leah Feiger: All proper, that is a superb one. Thanks, Tori. Will, what do you’ve for us?
Will Knight: Wow, I do not know if I can actually compete with RFK, however as a superb CIA operative, I’ll promote one thing from the weirder corners of AI, AI and philosophy, I assume. So there’s this factor referred to as Roko’s basilisk. So the basilisk is a mythological creature serpent that in case you regarded in its eyes, it may kill you. And so there was this thought experiment somebody posted on an AI discussion board saying that superintelligence sooner or later could be incentivized to create a simulation by which perhaps all of us exist inside it, and it could be incentivized to torture anyone who labored towards and even thought in regards to the concept of working towards it coming into being. So at one level in one in all these …
Leah Feiger: Unimaginable.
Will Knight: … boards, they banned discuss of Roko’s, this thought experiment, Roko’s basilisk. The concept was that in case you even thought of it, it might be harmful, which is especially bananas.
Leah Feiger: That’s so humorous. What boards is that this proliferating on, or not proliferating on?
Will Knight: This was on LessWrong, which is a really well-known discussion board devoted to AI dangers and alignment and—
Leah Feiger: How usually do you personally take into consideration Roko’s basilisk?
Will Knight: Nicely, I truly solely found it just lately, and I attempt not to consider it simply in case. It is like Pascal’s wager, is not it? It is simply kind of taking part in the percentages that superintelligence will come into being, so you must attempt to make it come into being. Yeah, it is fully mad.
Leah Feiger: Oh, that is an excellent one. OK. Oh, truly, it is a little bit onerous this week, however I bought to go along with Tori. CIA belongings, right here we go.
Vittoria Elliott: Lastly. Did the Ravens put me over the sting? I have to know.
Leah Feiger: The Ravens did put you over the sting. I preferred it, and it was a part of, I simply noticed how a lot you have been working for this, and yeah, it was an A for effort and an A for execution. Great things.
Vittoria Elliott: Thanks.
Leah Feiger: And partially, I can not give the win to one thing that I am not allowed to consider ever once more. Tori and Will, thanks a lot for becoming a member of us. You have been wonderful visitors.
Vittoria Elliott: Thanks, Leah.
Will Knight: Thanks for having me.
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