Liron Shapira
@liron
Host of Doom Debates — disagreements that must be resolved before the world ends.
GET READY FOR THE ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY INTERVIEW — OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED! I’m excited to be interviewing the original AI alignment person as part of his upcoming book tour. (It’ll be published on my personal YouTube channel.) This’ll be a big one for me personally. Like Morpheus in…
Top 1% content right here! “How China masters manufacturing and how America can catch up” @sdamico @Noahpinion @Econ102_Podcast youtube.com/watch?v=ca3a4b…
Sonya's point is one thing I try to underscore when I criticize EAs their values are not precisely the same as my own, but by my own values many of them are better people than I am and that matters
something important to note, amongst those of us who don't take effective altruism very seriously (AKA me), is that sincere effective altruists are better people than the rest of us
What a charlatan @GillVerd / @BasedBeffJezos is. First minute into his hourlong interview about thermodynamic computing, he casually implies the human brain is “operating near the Landauer limit” 🤡 It's actually about 10^8 less efficient. How about some pushback @MLStreetTalk?
1/ Here are Jack Clark (Anthropic), Shane Legg (Google DeepMind), John Schulman (ex-OpenAI), Mark Zuckerberg (Meta) and Elon Musk (xAI), all saying their timelines are less than 5 years long. Links below. 🧵
I’m really sick of seeing this kind of rhetoric
The full "Warning Shots" pilot episode with @ForHumanityPod, @liron and me. It's my first public appearance ever. I struggled with that a bit knowing that talking about AI existential dangers openly like that is costly, especially as a family man aiming for a normal life. I was…
The Bayesian Conspiracy did a cross over episode with @liron on Doom Debates. Video is out now on his channel! The content is great, but when people ask me why doesn't TBC do video - well take a look. I'm a giant friggin dork!
Hey @paulg, why not tweet pics of the current crisis to support what you're saying? The Gaza population is visibly in much better condition than the population of the Warsaw Ghetto was, so tweeting pics of the latter seems manipulative.
