I had the opposite takeaway from the podcast. Ajeya and Rob definitely don’t come to a confident conclusion. Near the end of the segment, Ajeya says, referring definitely to the simulation argument but also I think to anthropics generally,
I would definitely be interested in funding people who want to think about this. I think it is really deeply neglected. It might be the most neglected global prioritisation question relative to its importance. There’s at least two people thinking about AI timelines, but zero people [thinking about simulation/anthropics], basically. Except for Paul in his spare time, I guess.
I had the opposite takeaway from the podcast. Ajeya and Rob definitely don’t come to a confident conclusion. Near the end of the segment, Ajeya says, referring definitely to the simulation argument but also I think to anthropics generally,
Ah, thanks. It was a while ago, so I guess I was misremembering.