The comments on the video are a bit disheartening… lots of people saying Yudkowsky is too confusing, answers everything too technically or with metaphors, structuring sentences in a way that’s hard to follow, and Ezra didn’t really understand the points he was making.
One example: Eliezer mentioned in the interview that there was a kid whose chatbot encouraged him to commit suicide, with the point that “no one programmed the chatbot to do this.” This comment made me think:
if you get a chance listen to the interviews with the parents and the lawyers who are suing chatgpt because that kid did commit suicide.
Oh yeah, probably most people telling this story would at least mention that the kid did in fact commit suicide, rather than treating it solely as evidence for an abstract point...
The comments on the video are a bit disheartening… lots of people saying Yudkowsky is too confusing, answers everything too technically or with metaphors, structuring sentences in a way that’s hard to follow, and Ezra didn’t really understand the points he was making.
One example: Eliezer mentioned in the interview that there was a kid whose chatbot encouraged him to commit suicide, with the point that “no one programmed the chatbot to do this.” This comment made me think:
Oh yeah, probably most people telling this story would at least mention that the kid did in fact commit suicide, rather than treating it solely as evidence for an abstract point...