Robin Hanson Says You're Going to Live
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On the nature of intelligence, knowledge, the abstraction hierarchy, consciousness, and the future of humanity
Like many people, I was taken aback by Eliezer Yudkowsky’s recent appearance on the Bankless podcast. I find Yudkowsky’s arrogant doomerism to be quite charming, and think it explains why he’s been so successful in spreading his ideas. Whenever I listen to him, I sense a feeling of pure exasperation, in the sense of yes, we’re all going to die, it’s going to happen very soon, and why are you bothering to make me explain this again when you’re literally about to be wiped off this earth and everyone else will too you idiot. His recent transition to telling us that there’s basically nothing…
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