“Read the Roon” by Zvi

Roon, member of OpenAI's technical staff, is one of the few candidates for a Worthy Opponent when discussing questions of AI capabilities development, AI existential risk and what we should do about it. Roon is alive. Roon is thinking. Roon clearly values good things over bad things. Roon is engaging with the actual questions, rather than denying or hiding from them, and unafraid to call all sorts of idiots idiots. As his profile once said, he believes spice must flow, we just do go ahead, and makes a mixture of arguments for that, some good, some bad and many absurd. Also, his account is fun as hell.

Thus, when he comes out as strongly as he seemed to do recently, attention is paid, and we got to have a relatively good discussion of key questions. While I attempt to contribute here, this post is largely aimed at preserving [...]

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Outline:

(04:13) The Doubling Down

(06:03) Connor Leahy Gives it a Shot

(11:02) Roon Responds to Connor

(14:27) Connor Goes Deep

(30:57) A Question of Agency

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First published:
March 5th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jPZXx3iMaiJjdnMbv/read-the-roon

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.