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On Dwarkesh's Podcast with Leopold Aschenbrenner

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The central discussion was the theses of his paper, Situational Awareness, which I offered quotes from earlier, with a focus on the consequences of AGI rather than whether AGI will happen soon. There are also a variety of other topics. Thus, for the relevant sections of the podcast I am approaching this via roughly accepting the technological premise on capabilities and timelines, since they don’t discuss that. So the background is we presume straight lines on graphs will hold to get us to AGI and ASI (superintelligence), and this will allow us to generate a ‘drop in AI researcher’ that can then assist with further work. Then things go into ‘slow’ takeoff. I am changing the order of the sections a bit. I put the pure AI stuff first, then afterwards are most of the rest of it. The exception is the section on What Happened at OpenAI. I am leaving that part out because I see it as distinct, and requiring a different approach. It is important and I will absolutely cover it. I want to do th

On Dwarkesh's Podcast with Leopold Aschenbrenner Zvi Mowshowitz Jun 10, 2024 40 27 2 Share Previously: Quotes from Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness Paper Dwarkesh Patel talked to Leopold Aschenbrenner for about four and a half hours . The central discussion was the theses of his paper, Situational Awareness , which I offered quotes from earlier , with a focus on the consequences of AGI rather than whether AGI will happen soon. There are also a variety of other topics. Thus, for the relevant sections of the podcast I am approaching this via roughly accepting the technological premi

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