Liron Shapira
@liron • 40,923 subscribers
Host of Doom Debates — disagreements that must be resolved before the world ends.
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The #1 most important minute of J.D. Vance on Joe Rogan was actually this:
Liron Shapira1,506,881 views • 2 years ago
NEW: The Case Against Eliezer Yudkowsky, with Holly ⏸️ Elmore Dr. Holly Elmore, PauseAI US Founder and Executive Director, returns to Doom Debates to argue that the founder of the AI safety field is undermining his own movement. We cover Eliezer’s Coherent Extrapolated Volition framework, which Holly says amounted to an attempted “coup” on humanity, while I defend CEV as a good ideal of how we humans *would* be empowered to shape our destiny. Holly also claims that Eliezer’s public behavior is alienating the people PauseAI US needs to reach. I claim his track record is hugely positive and we shouldn't become the circular firing squad we warned against. It’s another scintillating episode with one of the most original and controversial thinkers in AI safety! Topics we get into: ⬜ Pause AI vs. “pacing the frontier” ⬜ Holly’s case against Eliezer Yudkowsky ⬜ A controversial kink among rationalists ⬜ The Aella photo and Holly’s breaking point ⬜ John Wentworth’s funding controversy ⬜ PauseAI US’s rules and red lines ⬜ Holly’s case for jailing frontier AI developers It's another scintillating episode with one of the most original and controversial thinkers in AI safety! 👇
Liron Shapira24,709 views • 14 days ago
THE $10,000 DEBATE YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR: Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ vs. 47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r Tensions run high as 47fucb confronts Eliezer about his “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” rhetoric: 47f warns that it could incite unstable individuals to harm AI researchers and their families, but Eliezer maintains that the possibility of extinction from superintelligent AI is too high to *not* speak out about. They also clash over whether we truly understand how LLMs work and what their fundamental limits are. Watch the full debate below, raw & unabridged 👇
Liron Shapira157,853 views • 5 months ago
![Jaan Tallinn, lead investor of Anthropic's $124M Series A, said today: “I've not met anyone in AI labs who says the risk [from training a next-gen model] is less than 1% of blowing up the planet. It's important that people know lives are being risked.” WTF is happening???](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1656929936639430657/ext_tw_video_thumb/1656929410992443392/pu/img/ZUJUjrok5M51p8cV.jpg)
Jaan Tallinn, lead investor of Anthropic's $124M Series A, said today: “I've not met anyone in AI labs who says the risk [from training a next-gen model] is less than 1% of blowing up the planet. It's important that people know lives are being risked.” WTF is happening???
Liron Shapira896,008 views • 3 years ago
Doug Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach and I Am a Strange Loop, is an AI doomer. Hofstadter was previously known for being dismissive of the potential of artificial neural networks & deep learning. Recent AI progress has apparently sparked a major change in his outlook.
Liron Shapira788,562 views • 3 years ago
Helen Toner (Helen Toner), former OpenAI board member, is finally going on record about firing Sam Altman: 😱 “He gave us inaccurate information about the small number of formal safety processes that the company did have in place.” 😱 “When ChatGPT came out, the board was not informed in advance about that. We learned about ChatGPT on Twitter.” 😱 “Sam didn't inform the board that he owned the OpenAI startup fund.” My two cents: This was inexcusable behavior on Sam's part, the old board was right to fire him, and the new board should fire him again.
Liron Shapira456,700 views • 2 years ago
NEW: plzdontkillus, brainchild of Aella and Brangus🔍⏹️, is an “influencer house”-style creator bootcamp in Berkeley making AI extinction risk content for mainstream consumption. Mentors included 𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳, CJ The X, Quinn Finite, Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ and Nate Soares ⏹️. With 57 people making daily videos for a month, the program racked up over 100 MILLION VIEWS. Was it effective? What are creators taking from it? And does doomerism really boost view counts?! PlzDoEnjoyOur special episode on PlzDontKillUs featuring Aella, Ronny, and three of the top creators: AVAL0N, Avisha NessAiver, and Josh Thor! Topics covered: ⬜ Origin of PlzDontKillUs ⬜ Why was Aella early to AI extinction risk? ⬜ What's Your P(Doom)?™ ⬜ Transhumanism and AI girlfriends ⬜ Aella rides the P(Doom) train ⬜ Life inside PDKU ⬜ Smashing the Overton window ⬜ Brangus lore, no cringe, no disgust ⬜ PDKU viral content examples ⬜ Normalizing AI doom Highly recommended 👇
Liron Shapira44,149 views • 2 months ago
“The model of selling content is going to zero.” —Chris Dixon, a16z Such thought leadership
Liron Shapira465,228 views • 2 years ago
Doom Debate with vitalik.eth has dropped: Will “d/acc” Protect Humanity from Superintelligent AI? Vitalik is both a hardcore techno-optimist and builder, and someone willing to seriously consider AI regulation and coordination mechanisms. He coined the term "d/acc'" – defensive, decentralized acceleration – as a middle path between uncritical AI acceleration and total pause scenarios. We debate the tractability of AI alignment, whether approaches like d/acc would actually work when superintelligence arrives, and why he thinks a pluralistic world of competing AIs might be safer than a single aligned superintelligence. The crux of our disagreement is that I think we're heading for a "plants vs. animals" scenario where AI will simply operate on timescales we can't match, while Vitalik believes we can maintain agency through the right combination of defensive technologies and institutional design. Finally, we tackle the discourse itself – I ask Vitalik to debunk the common ad hominem attacks against AI doomers, from "it's just a fringe position" to "no real builders believe in doom." His responses carry weight given his credibility as both a successful entrepreneur and someone who's maintained intellectual honesty throughout his career. Big thanks to Vitalik for a good-faith debate!
Liron Shapira177,772 views • 1 year ago
Please watch this unedited clip from today's AI safety debate between Connor Leahy and JJ:
Liron Shapira230,601 views • 3 years ago