“explosion. If you want to take this very far back, go full Ray Kurzweil. The literal Cambrian explosion, the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, has phase changes.”
Books mentioned in AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo
From Dwarkesh Podcast · 2025-04-03
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“these sorts of large scale cooperative dynamics of your moral maze, you have an institution, but then it becomes like a moral maze and it sort of collapses under its own weight and stuff like”
“if you look in Bostrom Superintelligence, there’s a discussion of Oracle AIs which are sort of”
“coming out of. So GPT3, if you asked it, “are bugs real?” It would give this kind of hemming hawing answer like “oh, we can never truly tell what is real, who knows?” Because it was trained kind of,”
“and being like, “my goal is success, I have to pretend to want to do all of these moral things while the humans are watching me”. That’s what happens in our story. And then at the very end,”
“and redone and maybe eventually I make it work. I did somehow publish Unsong, but it’s a much less natural task. So maybe one of the skills that goes into blogging is this. But I mean, no, because”
“ideas in the context of Joseph Henrich’s book. I think that’s good, I think that’s the kind of place that intellectual progress comes from. I think I am more incentivized to do that.”