Connor Leahy - e/acc, AGI and the future.

Connor is the CEO of Conjecture and one of the most famous names in the AI alignment movement. This is the "behind the scenes footage" and bonus Patreon interviews from the day of the Beff Jezos debate, including an interview with Daniel Clothiaux. It's a great insight into Connor's philosophy. At the end there is an unreleased additional interview with Beff. Support MLST: Please support us on Patreon. We are entirely funded from Patreon donations right now. Patreon supports get private discord access, biweekly calls, very early-access + exclusive content and lots more. https://patreon.com/mlst Donate: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=K2TYRVPBGXVNA If you would like to sponsor us, so we can tell your story - reach out on mlstreettalk at gmail Topics: Externalized cognition and the role of society and culture in human intelligence The potential for AI systems to develop agency and autonomy The future of AGI as a complex mixture of various components The concept of agency and its relationship to power The importance of coherence in AI systems The balance between coherence and variance in exploring potential upsides The role of dynamic, competent, and incorruptible institutions in handling risks and developing technology Concerns about AI widening the gap between the haves and have-nots The concept of equal access to opportunity and maintaining dynamism in the system Leahy's perspective on life as a process that "rides entropy" The importance of distinguishing between epistemological, decision-theoretic, and aesthetic aspects of morality (inc ref to Hume's Guillotine) The concept of continuous agency and the idea that the first AGI will be a messy admixture of various components The potential for AI systems to become more physically embedded in the future The challenges of aligning AI systems and the societal impacts of AI technologies like ChatGPT and Bing The importance of humility in the face of complexity when c