Superintelligence

This book by Nick Bostrom has come up 3 times on Lex Fridman. One of those mentions was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Duncan Trussell, Lex Fridman, Nick Bostrom. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-03-26 and the most recent from 2022-08-16. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. As the fate of the gorillas now depends more on us humans than on the gorillas themselves, so the fate of our species then would come to depend on the actions of the machine superintelligence. But we have one advantage: we get to make the first move.