The almost Dr. Igor Krawczuk joins me for what is the equivalent of 4 of my previous episodes. We get into all the classics: eugenics, capitalism, philosophical toads... Need I say more?
If you're interested in connecting with Igor, head on over to his website, or check out placeholder for thesis (it isn't published yet).
Because the full show notes have a whopping 115 additional links, I'll highlight some that I think are particularly worthwhile here:
- The best article you'll ever read on Open Source AI
- The best article you'll ever read on emergence in ML
- Kate Crawford's Atlas of AI (Wikipedia)
- On the Measure of Intelligence
- Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Wikipedia)
- Yurii Nesterov's Introductory Lectures on Convex Optimization
Chapters
- (02:32) - Introducing Igor
- (10:11) - Aside on EY, LW, EA, etc., a.k.a. lettersoup
- (18:30) - Igor on AI alignment
- (33:06) - "Open Source" in AI
- (41:20) - The story of infinite riches and suffering
- (59:11) - On AI threat models
- (01:09:25) - Representation in AI
- (01:15:00) - Hazard fishing
- (01:18:52) - Intelligence and eugenics
- (01:34:38) - Emergence
- (01:48:19) - Considering externalities
- (01:53:33) - The shape of an argument
- (02:01:39) - More eugenics
- (02:06:09) - I'm convinced, what now?
- (02:18:03) - AIxBio (round ??)
- (02:29:09) - On open release of models
- (02:40:28) - Data and copyright
- (02:44:09) - Scientific accessibility and bullshit
- (02:53:04) - Igor's point of view
- (02:57:20) - Outro
Links
Links to all articles/papers which are mentioned throughout the episode can be found below, in order of their appearance. All references, including those only mentioned in the extended version of this episode, are included.
- Suspicious Machines Methodology, referred to as the "Rotterdam Lighthouse Report" in the episode
- LIONS Lab at EPFL
- The meme that Igor references
- On the Hardness of Learning Under Symmetries
- Course on the concept of equivariant deep learning
- Aside on EY/EA/etc.
- Sources on Eliezer Yudkowski
- Scholarly Community Encyclopedia
- TIME100 AI
- Yudkowski's personal website
- EY Wikipedia
- A Very Literary Wiki
- Sources on Eliezer Yudkowski
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