What Do We Know About Our Minds?: A Conversation with Paul Bloom (Episode  

Sam’s sense of humor is one of my favorite qualities as well. The episode he does with his wife, especially the intro, makes me laugh so hard. Glad to be in good company of appreciation for his work and way of being :)

Harris' approval of the suppression of news stories for political ends is about as diametrically opposed to what Christopher Hitchens stood for as you can possibly get.

Sam's talk with Lex Fridman was good.

@@michaeltape8282 Sam's talk with everybody was good!

Harris avoids conversations where he risks getting called out on his BS.

LMAO! Yeah! You Jordan Peterson fanboys crack me up. Check your history. I do believe Sam (unintentionally) screwed him up. So badly in fact that old Jordy went into seclusion and seriously considered committing the Big "S"! Fortunately a little professional guidance and a few med.'s seem to be working and at least preventing him from being committed.

​@@twntwrs give me some examples of people who avoid it less than him, in my mind he is exceptionally good at entertaining difficult conversations

Seriously, I was subscribing when it was $4 or $5, but $15 is apple music for 6 accounts.

He gives away free subscriptions to people who can’t afford it. He usually says it at the beginning of each podcast now.

It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster for the political institutions

Hmmm. That is just what a bot would say....

Simpler because we will need to refer to original source material once again, just like they used to teach in college. No more, “I saw it on RU-vid (whatever) so it must be true.”

The not trusting anything is already happening. I'd love to see more and more people, especially gen Z begin to leave social platforms / tech and return to doing the things many of us remember doing growing up (party in the woods, get a band together with friends, ride bikes etc). When I look around my neighborhood now not so far from where I grew up it's like a ghost town. We live near high school and there are thousands of kids living here, but they spend little time outside hanging out in their own neighborhood. They're on Twitch or whatever. And when you do see them walking back from school they're looking lonely and beaten down. It's hard to watch and I worry about my son's future here.

I think you mean to say a lot more complicated or a lot more complacent.

True. But It's not just those of an intellectual bent. Media platforms , youtube included , have a tempting lure of every flavor . Whether it's celebrity gossip, political outrage, video game trailers, sports takes, or cat videos. If you have a "need" the algorithms will exploit it and attempt to addict you.

@@Suzume-Shimmer Amen

@@robertspies4695 So I guess we'll all go down together. 🤗 Still I agree with your face to face time and art making as great therapy and a positive retreat to a saner reality.

Who then decides which sources are legitimate in the blockchain? Trust in sources had already been annihilated before GPT arrived.

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” ― G.K. Chesterton

Indeed, we need to get people to push AI ASAP. If some people want to go the way of the Amish, so be it. Shouldnt stop us from saving lives and narrowing the wealth gap.

​@@robadkerson You've won today's staggering hubris award 🎉🎉

This whole "OMG AI" is a massive overreaction in my opinion. People were doing the same kind of fearmongering about computers around 40+ years ago. Then we had the Y2K bug when the world was going to crash LOL. Some of my friends and family were terrified and no end of comforting would calm them. People filled their bath tubs with water in case the gravity feed would fail at midnight etc. AGI is Y2K all over again, and again, it's just a software issue.

@@toby9999 I'd have to push back a little here Toby. Don't get me wrong, I hope you're right about this but there are many reasons to think that there really isn't much comparison between Y2K and the advent of AGI. I'd say it's apples and oranges. Let me try and break it down and as Lex would say, try to "steelman" your argument. You argue that, just as the Y2K bug turned out to be a non-catastrophic event, concerns about AGI are also unlikely to materialise into significant threats. You believe that AGI is, at its core, a "software issue", implying that it can be addressed and managed through appropriate programming and updates. This perspective certainly encourages a more optimistic outlook on the development of AGI and the potential for amazing technological progress. And you're right when you argue that humanity has a history of overcoming such fears or even, as you say, overblowing them. But I believe there are many reasons to think those arguments may not apply here. Unlike the Y2K bug, which was a specific software issue limited to date representations, AGI has the potential to impact a much broader range of domains. As a general-purpose intelligence, AGI could surpass human intelligence in various areas, potentially leading to unforeseen consequences. AI is still a developing technology, and its future trajectory is uncertain. While the Y2K bug was a well-defined problem that could be addressed with specific solutions, AGI's development and potential risks are less predictable, which makes the comparison between the two less straightforward. The development of AGI raises numerous ethical and societal questions, such as the implications for labour markets, privacy, and the potential concentration of power. These concerns go beyond the scope of a simple software issue and warrant much broader discussions and considerations. Many experts argue that AGI could pose an existential risk if not developed and managed carefully. I'd strongly urge you to read Human Compatible by Stuart Russell and SuperIntelligence by Nick Bostrom. The Y2K bug simply did not present a comparable level of risk, the potential consequences of AGI make it crucial to approach its development with caution and foresight. There is every reason to think it carries existential risk and honestly, that isn't being hyperbolic. You're right though, fears around new technologies can sometimes be overblown, as with the Y2K bug, but it's essential to consider the unique aspects of AGI that make it a distinct and potentially more significant concern.

Chris Langan, CTMU

How does ivermectin taste?

@@G_Demolished It's pretty much tasteless in pill form. How's the myocarditis?

@@G_Demolished how many people did IM kill?

We are living in the most transformative time in human history. Future people will envy us for having lived through this time. No we won't go extinct, but some jobs will. Learn AI and be an expert at it when you graduate. By then the world will be very different.

Also violence and war have been steadily decreasing over the last half-century. If anything, the human race is becoming less violent. You're being deceived.

Wouldnt it need to be human to experience human emotion ? Clearly it doesn't experience human intelligence but an artificial machine version of it , at most. Similiar in ways (though vastly different) that while cats and dogs experience emotions they dont experience human emotions.

Have you ever tried ChatDMT though?

@@anewman thanks Austin!

And he has even more stuff for you to pay for. It sucks hard.

​@@LLlap yeah paying for anything sucks hard. If you want quality content you have to pay up.

Yes, satiating quality requires one to pay up.

@@ganeshkimi no you don't! Lol. Anything is free on the web. Also the pidcast is the only good thing. The gerbaiz episodes are awful.

We need one challenging Elon exceptionalism...

Or his weird stance in favor of Anti-wokeness. Or against AI... (And I'm a Sam fan)

@@robadkersonI think he opposes the authoritarian tendencies surrounding those who identify themselves as “woke”. Such as cancellation and hyper fixation on skin colour etc

@@christopherhitchens163 maybe, but then he's just playing into the hands of grifters. There have been legal proceedings now that can best define wokeness for us: " an awareness of social injustice" Sam Harris is a man who appreciates that words have meaning, the anti-woke rhetoric distorts that meaning.

That assumes Harris is aware he's steeped in American exceptionalism.

Not the signals themselves but the properties that emerge from those signals, and of the brain structure

Finally someone who gets it

GPT 3 sure, but 4 can understand images well enough to do a low grade painting of 3d space with things like trees. It clearly has some understanding in its model. Wolfram calculated the ability to crunch all these numbers to get it's performance as impossible as well.

@@thelaw3536 that's just pattern recognition, google has been working on image recognition for a long time. Have a large enough database of images and their corresponding labels and it's possible. It is both amazing and not so amazing at the same time. There is no larger understanding/thought/wisdom behind the curtain.

@@DavidDavoDavidson they didn't use images though. There's no reason for it to be able to map out 3d space yet it does. It's also tested a lot on it's ability to understand

This. It's all Western ego and sensationalism.

Other people? I'm not sure what you're asking here.

Me too We are all winners

I agree. You're spot on. As it stands currently, it's just a "clever" front end for a search algorthm.

It's not new but will exacerbate the issue, AI outputs content at a rate far beyond all human users combined and writes better than 90% of them.

@@NoFeckingNamesLeft Or it may be even be a net positive, because it makes us more aware of how important it is to chose ones sources and ignore elaborated spam. And there is also nothing wrong with good writing.

He really does get hung up on silly stuff for someone who should be quite self aware.

It's difficult for me to imagine occupying the level of self-oriented arrogance necessary to make such a comment. Try to absorb the following reality: _seriously, nobody cares._ Neither is which group you you identify "as," nor your dismissive name-calling, interesting to other people. And also-perhaps with a cherry of irony-nobody cares about what interests you, either. Your opinion of a person places precisely zero leverage against the arguments that they may make.

​@@pocket83squared Surely somebody cares, particularly the person who feels compelled to respond cares.

@@Maxrepfitgm Is that supposed to be a touché? C'mon, man. I'm far too cynical to have any sort of care fueling my responses. Conversation here is more like an _expect disappointment or don't play at all_ scenario, given how the vast majority of you out there are only nominally literate. Calling it a compulsion is a stretch; it's more like a guilty self-indulgence. Don't give out too much credit.

@@pocket83squared Mental illness needs to be addressed in this country.

He fled twitter, because he can't handle constructive criticism.

@@WaltPowellEnt Yes. All accounts on Twitter are fully open-minded, except Sam

@@reinforcedpenisstem funny how after being on Twitter for years his discovery of needing to get off it just happens to coincide with the most unanimous shitstorm of pushback against him he's ever seen.

@@twntwrs Guy gets death threats re: Islam and you think Twitter nonsense is enough?

I suppose its like an alcoholic finding sobriety after a lifetime of drunken brawls and blackouts of forgotten time.

One big difference, most human liars have a tell. Plus, AI doesn't exactly lie, it hallucinates, or confabulates in a very convincing fashion.

Except there's no evidence your god exists.

@@twntwrs Wire like neuronal structures that conduct electricity via ions/neurotransmitters in the CNS/PNS possess no attribute of thinking/life and yet that has “randomly” led to life. Consciousness/thinking is an innate idea that is distinct from carbon skeleton and yet the materialist scientist believes that chemistry turned into biology via “god of randomness”/”Magic”/"law of nature". Consciousness can only stem from consciousness itself (Allah-one/indivisible/loving/self-sufficient Perfection)

@@twntwrs “How it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as a result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the djinn when Aladdin rubbed his lamp in the story.” -Thomas Henry Huxley

You are a rare person. In the sense of being where you shouldn't be. If you have the beliefs that you profess from your comments then what the fuck are you doing on a random sam harris podcast episode. I sense a blemish within your Iman and i fear it isn't getting any smaller.

@@MorallyResponsible a most fitting analogy indeed: In the real world nothing happens when you rub a lamp other than it possibly getting polished a bit.

Do a quick search, every review of ChatGPT4 says it hallucinates.

​@@deborahfreedman333 Yes, I didn't assert that it was infallible. Simply that it's rate of hallucinations is subjectively much lower. I've used GPT4 extensively over the past month and my productivity has absolutely skyrocketed. Have you tried GPT4? I think we must be cautiously optimistic about this tool. It has the potential to transform our society in profound ways- both positively and negatively

That's one of his biggest frustrations.

True. Our entire lives have become one big CAPTCHA test. If humans just trusted themselves a bit more they’d realize they have this period of history in the bag.

This will absolutely happen in the next 1-3 years.

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