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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (/ ˌ ɛ l i ˈ ɛ z ər ˌ j ʌ d ˈ k aʊ s k i / EH-lee-EH-zər YUD-KOW-skee; born September 11, 1979) is an American artificial intelligence researcher and writer on decision theory and ethics, best known for popularizing ideas related to friendly artificial intelligence.
May 25, 2023 · Eliezer Yudkowsky, the main proponent of this doomsday prophecy, explains how he thinks it will go down: “A sufficiently intelligent AI won’t stay confined to computers for long,” he writes ...
Mar 1, 2016 · Yudkowsky: Only in the sense that you can make airplanes without knowing how a bird flies. You don't need to be an expert in bird biology, but at the same time, it's difficult to know enough to ...
Imagine a complex biological adaptation with ten necessary parts. If each of the ten genes is independently at 50% frequency in the gene pool – each gene possessed by only half the organisms in that species – then, on average, only 1 in 1024 organisms will possess the full, functioning adaptation.
Sep 7, 2023 · September 7, 2023 7:00 AM EDT. In February, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, posted a poorly lit selfie with two people—the musician Grimes and the controversial AI theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky. Grimes ...
Aug 8, 2022 · He loves his family, he told me, “but I guess if I’d spent that money on beer it would have been O.K.” ... Eliezer Yudkowsky, one of the group’s patriarchs, instructed his followers to ...
Jun 27, 2017 · Noted rationalist Eliezer Yudkowsky has written a response to my Simplistic Theory of Left and Right. With his kind permission, Eliezer speaks: Bryan Caplan’s Simplistic Theory of Left and Right says “The Left is anti-market and the Right is anti-Left”. This theory is half wrong, and will for this reason confuse the Left in particular. […]
