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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
to contain things later.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
Beautifully put.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
So on the idea of intelligence, what form, treading cautiously as we've agreed as we
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
tumbled down the hill, what form...
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
We can't stop ourselves, can we?
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
We cannot.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
What form do you see it taking?
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
So one example, Facebook, Google, do want to, I don't know a better word, you want to
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
influence users to behave a certain way and so that's one kind of example of how intelligence
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
is systems perhaps modifying the behavior of these intelligent human beings in order
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to sell more product of different kinds.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
But do you see other examples of this actually emerging in...
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
Just take any parasitic system, make sure that there's some way in which that there's
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differential success, heritability, and variation.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
And those are the magic ingredients and if you really wanted to build a nightmare machine,
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
make sure that the system that expresses the variability has a spanning set so that it
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can learn to arbitrary levels by making it sufficiently expressive.
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That's your nightmare.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
So it's your nightmare, but it could also be, it's a really powerful mechanism by which
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
to create, well, powerful systems.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
So are you more worried about the negative direction that might go versus the positive?
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
So you said parasitic, but that doesn't necessarily need to be what the system converges towards.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
It could be, what is it?
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
And the dividing line between parasitism and symbiosis is not so clear.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
That's what they tell me about marriage.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
I'm still single, so I don't know.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
Well yeah, we could go into that too, but no, I think we have to appreciate, are you
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
infected by your own mitochondria?
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
Right.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
Right?
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
Yeah.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
So in marriage, you fear the loss of independence, but even though the American therapeutic community
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
may be very concerned about codependence, what's to say that codependence isn't what's
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necessary to have a stable relationship in which to raise children who are maximally
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
case selected and require incredible amounts of care because you have to wait 13 years
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
before there's any reproductive payout and most of us don't want our 13 year olds having
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kids.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
That's a very tricky situation to analyze and I would say that predators and parasites
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
drive much of our evolution and I don't know whether to be angry at them or thank them.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
Well ultimately, I mean nobody knows the meaning of life or what even happiness is, but there
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is some metrics.
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They didn't tell you?
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They didn't.
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They didn't.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
That's why all the poetry and books are about, you know, there's some metrics under which
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
you can kind of measure how good it is that these AI systems are roaming about.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
So you're more nervous about software than you are optimistic about ideas of, yeah, self
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replicating largely.
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I don't think we've really felt where we are.
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You know, occasionally we get a wake up, 9 11 was so anomalous compared to everything
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else we've experienced on American soil that it came to us as a complete shock that that
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was even a possibility.
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What it really was was a highly creative and determined R and D team deep in the bowels
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
of Afghanistan showing us that we had certain exploits that we were open to that nobody
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had chosen to express.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
I can think of several of these things that I don't talk about publicly that just seem
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
to have to do with, um, how relatively unimaginative those who wish to cause havoc and destruction
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have been up until now.
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But the great mystery of our time of this particular little era is how remarkably stable
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we've been since 1945 when we demonstrated the ability to use a nuclear weapons in anger.
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And we don't know why things like that haven't happened since then.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
We've had several close calls, we've had mistakes, we've had a brinksmanship.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
And what's now happened is that we've settled into a sense that, Oh, it's, it'll always
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be nothing.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
It's been so long since something was at that level of danger that we've got a wrong idea
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in our head.
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And that's why when I went on the Ben Shapiro show, I talked about the need to resume above
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ground testing of nuclear devices because we have people whose developmental experience
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suggests that when let's say Donald Trump and North Korea engage on Twitter, Oh, it's
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nothing.
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It's just posturing.
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Everybody's just in it for money.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
There's, there's an, a sense that people are in a video game mode, which has been the right
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call since 1945.
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We've been mostly in video game mode.
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It's amazing.
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So you're worried about a generation which has not seen any existential.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
We've lived under it.
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You see, you're younger.
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I don't know if, if, and again, you came from, from Moscow.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
There was a TV show called the day after that had a huge effect on a generation growing
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
up in the U S and it talked about what life would be like after a nuclear exchange.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
We have not gone through an embodied experience collectively where we've thought about this.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
And I think it's one of the most irresponsible things that the elders among us have done,
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which is to provide this beautiful garden in which the thorns are cut off of the, of
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the Rose bushes and all of the edges are rounded and sanded.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
And so people have developed this, this totally unreal idea, which is everything's going to
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
be just fine.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
And do I think that my leading concern is AGI or my leading concern is a thermonuclear
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
exchange or gene drives or any one of these things?
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
I don't know, but I know that our time here in this very long experiment here is finite
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because the toys that we've built are so impressive and the wisdom to accompany them has not materialized.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
And I think it's, we actually got a wisdom uptick since 1945.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
We had a lot of dangerous skilled players on the world stage who nevertheless, no matter
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how bad they were managed to not embroil us in something that we couldn't come back from
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the cold war.
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
Yeah, and the distance from the cold war, you know, I'm very mindful of a, there was
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
a Russian tradition actually of on your wedding day, going to visit a memorial to those who
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gave their lives.
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Can you imagine this where you, on the happiest day of your life, you go and you pay homage
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