I’m only in a few minutes and can already tell it’s gonna be a good one :)
If you don’t know the podcast, it’s two academics analyzing arguments and discussions from people who may be gurus, and I like it quite a lot
ETA: This is two “normies” who usually discuss talks and discussions of health influencers, Elon Musk and so on and they’ve done a three hour episode about Yudkowski talking with Lex Fridman. If you like two academics waxing lyrically about topics you may or may not know more than them (Yudkowski and maybe AI, but they do know stuff about Machine Learning) this is probably a neat podcast for you. If you would rather read a long book of someone who read everything Yudkowski wrote, then this is probably not for you.
I’ve been excited for this one! I hope they do a good job.
Yeah nah they uncritically used the now-debunked military simulation thing, and then also-uncritically said a bunch of things about “he’s clearly thought a lot about it and he knows some things about ai”
These guys are ill-equipped to handle yudkowsky, and they take/took at face value a lot of points that members of this sub have already tossed out the window. It would have been funnier and more effective if they stuck to making fun of the doomerism.