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1. “I guess this is a tough question for a bunch of reasons. Maybe the biggest one is concrete, and I think it's just if we're talking about really long spans of time, then a lot will change and it's really hard for someone to talk concretely about what that will look like without saying really silly things. But I can venture some guesses or fill in some parts. I think this is also a question of how good is good. Like often I'm thinking about worlds that seem like kind of the best achievable outcome or a likely achievable outcome. So I am very often imagining my typical future has sort of continuing economic and military competition amongst groups of humans. I think that competition is increasingly mediated by AI systems. So for example, if you imagine humans making money, it will be less and less worthwhile for humans to spend any of their time trying to make money or any of their time trying to fight wars. So increasingly the world you imagine is one where AI systems are doing those activities on behalf of humans.”

   2023-10-31 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Paul Christiano — Preventing an AI takeover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source