Book · recommended on 1 episode
Adaptation and Natural Selection
George C. Williams ISBN 1282751433
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George C. Williams ISBN 1282751433
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This book by George C. Williams came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Eliezer Yudkowsky. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“a nice book if you've got the time to read it is adaptation and natural selection which is one of the founding books”— Eliezer Yudkowsky
The guest here is Eliezer Yudkowsky: AI alignment researcher, writer, and founder of the rationalist community (LessWrong) and the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. He is one of the earliest and most prominent voices warning that misaligned superintelligent AI poses an existential threat to humanity. AI-risk theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that superintelligent AGI will likely kill everyone because alignment must be solved on the first try.
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