Machine learning on the job
Matt's begun his voyage into the depths of making the world a better place through AI. We discuss both the occupational and philosophical ramifications of this decision.
0:00 - What do we want out of a job?
6:20 - What’s this AI all about and is it bad?
Robert Miles’s YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLB7AzTwc6VFZrBsO2ucBMg
Jorts the Cat going fash - https://twitter.com/JortsTheCat/status/1582252627143708673
The Paperclip Maximizer - https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/paperclip-maximizer
32:00 - So what?
Toby Ord’s The Precipice - https://www.amazon.com/Precipice-Existential-Risk-Future-Humanity/dp/0316484911
52:50 - Technological limitations, and how this is all YET AGAIN nerds’ faults.
Wrench hacking - https://xkcd.com/538/
1:06:10 - Filling the void with doing something about all this
80,000 hours, the Effective Altruism foundation - https://80000hours.org
What if I’m not a coder Q&A excerpt - https://rohinshah.com/faq-career-advice-for-ai-alignment-researchers/
1:40:50 - Broader personal teleology
Google Engineer that thinks the AI he was working with is sentient - https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/18861232/google-engineer-dismissed-says-ai-is-sentient/
