EA - Linkpost: Dwarkesh Patel interviewing Carl Shulman by Stefan Schubert

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Linkpost: Dwarkesh Patel interviewing Carl Shulman, published by Stefan Schubert on June 14, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.We ended up talking for 8 hours, so I'm splitting this episode into 2 parts.This part is about Carl’s model of an intelligence explosion, which integrates everything from:how fast algorithmic progress & hardware improvements in AI are happening,what primate evolution suggests about the scaling hypothesis,how soon before AIs could do large parts of AI research themselves, and whether there would be faster and faster doublings of AI researchers,how quickly robots produced from existing factories could take over the economy.We also discuss the odds of a takeover based on whether the AI is aligned before the intelligence explosion happens, and Carl explains why he’s more optimistic than Eliezer.The next part, which I’ll release next week, is about all the specific mechanisms of an AI takeover, plus a whole bunch of other galaxy brain stuff.Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org