George Hotz vs Eliezer Yudkowsky

okay we are gathered here to witness George hotz and Ellie azer yutkowski debate and discuss live on Twitter and YouTube AI safety and related topics you guys already know who George and Eleazar are so I don't feel that introduction is necessary I'm dwarkesh I'll be moderating I'll mostly stay out of the way um except to kick things off by letting George explain his basic position and we'll take things from there George I'll kick it off to you sure um so I took an existentialism class in high school and you'd read about these people SAR kierkegar niche and you wonder who were these people alive today and I think I'm sitting across from one of them now um rationality and the sequences uh this whole field the whole less wrong Cinematic Universe uh have impacted so many people's lives in I think a very positive way including mine um not only you a philosopher you're also a great storyteller um there's two books that I've picked up and you know it was like crack I couldn't put them down uh one was Atlas Shrugged and the other one was Harry Potter and the methods of rationality um it's a great book now those are fictional stories um you've also told some stories pertaining to the real world um one was a story you told when you were younger about how I remember the day I found staring into the singularity when I was 15. and it starts talking about Mars law and how Moore's Law is fundamentally a human law that says humans double the power of processors every two years so once computers are doing it it's going to be two years but the next time it'll be one year and then six months and then three months and then 1.5 and so on and this is a hyperbolic sequence um this is a singularity that's why it's called staring into the singularity then this document said that we were gonna you know I was gonna do wonderful things for us we were going to go colonize the universe we were going to go you know go forth and do all things till the end of all ages um then you changed your views and super intelligence does not imply super morality the orthogonality thesis I'm not going to challenge it it is obviously a ...