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Dwarkesh PodcastHolden Karnofsky — History's most important century
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Episode Details
EPISODE INFO
- Released
- January 3, 2023
- Duration
- 1h 56m
- Channel
- Dwarkesh Podcast
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Holden Karnofsky is the co-CEO of Open Philanthropy and co-founder of GiveWell. He is also the author of one of the most interesting blogs on the internet, Cold Takes. We discuss:
- Are we living in the most important century?
- Does he regret OpenPhil’s 30 million dollar grant to OpenAI in 2016?
- How does he think about AI, progress, digital people, & ethics?
Highly recommend! 𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒
- Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/holden-karnofsky
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𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:58 - The Most Important Century 00:06:44 - The Weirdness of Our Time 00:21:20 - The Industrial Revolution 00:35:40 - AI Success Scenario 00:52:36 - Competition, Innovation , & AGI Bottlenecks 01:00:14 - Lock-in & Weak Points 01:06:04 - Predicting the Future 01:20:40 - Choosing Which Problem To Solve 01:26:56 - $30M OpenAI Investment 01:30:22 - Future Proof Ethics 01:37:28 - Integrity vs Utilitarianism 01:40:46 - Bayesian Mindset & Governance 01:46:56 - Career Advice
SPEAKERS
Holden Karnofsky
guestDwarkesh Patel
host
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Dwarkesh Podcast, featuring Holden Karnofsky and Dwarkesh Patel, Holden Karnofsky — History's most important century explores Holden Karnofsky explains why AI could define humanity’s entire future Holden Karnofsky outlines his “Most Important Century” thesis: if we develop AI that can do essentially all the cognitive work humans do to advance science and technology, this century could determine the long‑run trajectory of civilization.
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