Anthropic's New Hire Should WORRY You, AI is a Math Genius, Live Callers! — Livestream (May 22)

About this episode

ATTENTION: We’re looking for paid help at LessOnline from June 5-7. Apply now!

OpenAI pushes the frontier of mathematics, Anthropic hires Andrej Karpathy to work on recursive self-improvement, live callers challenge the doom argument, and we've got a soundboard!

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Links

Less Online conference (June 5–7, Berkeley) — https://less.online

Doom Debates Discord — https://discord.gg/g2X8h5UCrU

OpenAI — “An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry” — https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/

Timestamps

00:00:00 — Welcome + New Soundboard!

00:09:27 — Doom Debates Is Sponsoring Less Online

00:17:30 — Ben Goertzel Episode Recap

00:27:30 — Goertzel's Alignment Blind Spot

00:34:21 — OpenAI Disproves an 80-Year-Old Erdős Conjecture

00:41:00 — David Deutsch Says "Amazing"

00:50:31 — Eliezer Yudkowsky's Job Replacement Progression

00:54:07 — Anthropic's $44 Billion Run Rate

01:07:45 — Schadenfreude Week: Liron Loses $10K

01:13:04 — Teaching Ezra Prediction Markets

01:18:11 — Caller Williawa: Is the Goal Engine Argument Effective?

01:37:00 — Caller Will: Brain Rot and Idiocracy

01:55:04 — Anthropic Hires Karpathy for Recursive Self-Improvement

01:57:16 — Rob Wiblin Says Recursive Self-Improvement Should be "Illegal"

02:01:37 — Caller Henry: The Chicken Riddle

02:08:41 — David Sacks Kills the AI Executive Order

02:11:20 — The Philanthropy Tidal Wave

02:15:56 — Donate to Doom Debates

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