I remember being surprised by the number of times Connor Leahy (Conjecture’s CEO) used the word “stupid” in this episode of the FLI podcast. 42 times (search for “stupid”) in 1 h 5 min 5 s, i.e. once every 93.0 s (= (60^2 + 5*60 + 5)/42). I do not know whether this says something about Connor’s character, but it jumped out to me. Here are the 1st 13 occurences of “stupid” (emphasis mine):
bad people most bad people are like shockingly stupid like truly genuinely
shockingly unintelligent especially like terrorists they’re like and stuff like that are often just like shockingly
uncreative and intelligent and giving them ideas might seem like well
you know I’ve already come up with this so you know like you know surely someone else no one else can but often they can
so I’m not going to get my most likely scenario because my most likely scenarios involve human actors doing
stupid things and like I can think of a concrete human actors where I’m like yep
that’s they would do that they’re definitely dumb enough to do that but you know maybe it’s not the name but let
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one of the mantras I live my life by one of the things I like to repeat to myself to like Orient myself through life is
the same is the the saying don’t be stupid now this is a very different saying from
be smart because be smart is hard I can’t guarantee I’m smart so dear listener I cannot guarantee to you that
any of the things I’m saying is smart I can’t guarantee you that I can’t guarantee you that I won’t I’ll be smart in all scenarios
but like I’m pretty pretty that I still I’m still stupid sometimes but like
especially Orient yourself around recognizing when you’re being stupid and just not doing that you can already
outperform like Everyone by like a crazy Martin because most people do stupid
things all the time it’s crazy how much times people spend just like loading
their guns and shooting themselves into the foot over and over again like and the same goes for Humanity on a
civilizational level you think yep absolutely if you man you would literally just shooting stop stop
yourself on the foot I’m saying you know you know in you know become enlightened and Ascend into the
you know a truly you know beautiful society which by the way is also possible everyone’s just being stupid
but even if we would just not to be stupid and not shoot ourselves in the
foot over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again if you could just do that man man
would I feel better about a future but like prediction markets are still illegal in the US like we are shooting
ourselves in the foot so hard every single day all the time it’s in it’s
just truly patterning like if alien came down for space to be like oh what the did you guys do what would
it mean for Humanity to not be stupid in terms of AI safety what should we do what is what is the scenario what is a
how do we survive this if if we were to not be stupid uh so that’s a great question so I’m gonna I I’m going to
give an answer for what will we do if we were not stupid and what will we do if we were smart that’s what I want to hear yeah so first answer what we do for not
stupid everyone will just kind of look at each other and like huh the CGI thing you
know seems like the actress for how guys yep we should probably not do it right yep and so they didn’t
that would be the non-stupid version like you know back to Alan Turing people
have predicted this like this is not like some crazy new thing or whatever it’s like it’s obviously predictable Alan Turing already predicted all of
this basically and like you know I like you know actually good and stuff like this so let’s let’s sorry but let’s
pause here for a second actually do you think it’s possible to slow down uh progress in AI capabilities research so
Forum Mod here. It seems like many people didn’t like the comment you’re replying to. My read is that you’re trying to humorously push back on Vasco’s comment. But while humor is often neglected on the EA Forum, saying “this comment is stupid” does not provide Vasco with any information on how to improve his comment, and is pretty mean. This is a warning.
Thanks for this analysis!
I remember being surprised by the number of times Connor Leahy (Conjecture’s CEO) used the word “stupid” in this episode of the FLI podcast. 42 times (search for “stupid”) in 1 h 5 min 5 s, i.e. once every 93.0 s (= (60^2 + 5*60 + 5)/42). I do not know whether this says something about Connor’s character, but it jumped out to me. Here are the 1st 13 occurences of “stupid” (emphasis mine):
This comment is pretty stupid.
Hi Tomas,
Forum Mod here. It seems like many people didn’t like the comment you’re replying to. My read is that you’re trying to humorously push back on Vasco’s comment. But while humor is often neglected on the EA Forum, saying “this comment is stupid” does not provide Vasco with any information on how to improve his comment, and is pretty mean. This is a warning.