Yudkowsky and Christiano discuss "Takeoff Speeds" — LessWrong
This is a transcription of Eliezer Yudkowsky responding to Paul Christiano's Takeoff Speeds live on Sep. 14, followed by a conversation between Eliezer and Paul. This discussion took place after Eliezer's conversation with Richard Ngo. Color key: [Yudkowsky][10:14] (Nov. 22 follow-up comment) (This was in response to an earlier request by Richard Ngo that I respond to Paul on Takeoff Speeds.) [Yudkowsky][16:52] maybe I'll try liveblogging some https://sideways-view.com/2018/02/24/takeoff-speeds/ here in the meanwhile [Yudkowsky][16:57] The main disagreement is not about what will happen once we have a superintelligent AI, it’s about what will happen before we have a superintelligent AI. So slow takeoff seems to mean that AI has a larger impact on the world, sooner. It seems to me to be disingenuous to phrase it this way, given that slow-takeoff views usually imply that AI has a large impact later relative to right now (2021), even if they imply that AI impacts the world "earlier" rel