The Dawn of AGI: Bret Speaks with Alexandros Marinos on the Darkhorse Podcast

Bret Speaks with Alexandros Marinos on the dawning of the AI age. Where are we, where are we headed, and how should we react?Show more

Find Alexandros on Twitter: @alexandrosM (https://twitter.com/alexandrosM)
Find Alexandros at his Substack: Do Your Own Research (https://doyourownresearch.substack.com/)

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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
02:50 Doomers
04:48 Sponsors
11:31 Doomer continued
16:50 Single point of failure
25:58 Rationalists during COVID
28:28 Yudkowsky on being doomed
39:10 Rationalism and Roko's basilisk
48:50 Yudkowsky's view
01:00:30 Comparison to Nuclear non proliferation treaty and GOF lab research
01:06:45 Remarkable or horror
01:19:20 Alexandros uses of AI
01:30:10 Is panic useful?
01:34:20 COVID analogy and deepfakes
01:46:05 5 AI catastrophes
02:00:50 Is success possible?
02:08:00 What can we do today?
02:17:18 Why Alexandros is misrepresented
02:25:00 Absence of Rationalists during COVID
02:40:20 Bret defending Sam Harris
02:48:23 Wrap up