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NCCP 700-1015 — Anthropol The Future of Human Insecurity (Session 8 of 8)
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Final session of Land's Anthropol course, on singletons versus competitive/selective processes.
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Self-transcribed from the recording's audio/video with Whisper ASR, then drawn from the frozen curation of the CCRU oral archive. The identifiers below fingerprint the exact source transcript files.
- Series
- standalone
- Duration
- 02:53:22 (~173 min)
- Words
- 24,110
- Corpus cluster
- video
- Source/billing metadata (unverified)
- Nick Land (instructor) with seminar participants
- Topics
- Nick Land · singleton · competition · AI alignment
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- b44e33ec08ef5b26d2b7e13041e98725984e3aef4756bc67348b35f952e4e25d
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00:00:00
Alright, hello and welcome to the final session of Anthropole, Future of Human Security with Nick Land. I was just saying it's a very, very sweet day as being the last session of this really intense but awesome course. I've been glad to be here. And yeah, so Nick. Okay, great. Thanks, Tim. Do I...I'm noticing I don't…
00:24:43
So I think the best thing from my point of view at this point is to open this up and see what everyone at this stage has to say about this stuff. Yeah, I kind of started reading just an Art of Foom debate, through all of it. I sort of started from the end and went to the beginning. But what was interesting as I…
00:45:54
If it started out, if that sentence was in the Roko basilisk article, Yeah. It would just mean something totally, like, Sure. And then wanting it the other way. But it wouldn't have to be rewritten. No. No. And actually I think that you're on sort of surprisingly solid ground in this thing about, when…
01:04:28
even if it wasn't, like, the sole natural development path, it would have to be a huge incentive. You know, if you didn't... you don't want to have to deal with the problem of asynchronous backup copy, that somebody might actually... accidentally wake up and suddenly you've got a copy of yourself diverging…
01:22:07
Because anything that is not actually operating as... You know, if you don't have complete gravitational collapse, you have a sort of technical obstacle to the internal communication structure of an advanced intelligence. So that would be, you know... To come back to Konstantin's question about what is the model…
01:38:46
With every attempted upgrade that it does to itself. Because there's nothing outside the experiment. If there was, there'd be a protected layer. It's constantly going all in. Yeah. Yes. Yudelski has this idea... Like, yeah, we're going all in, but what does Yudelski... He thinks that there is, like, a failure mode…
02:08:36
you know obviously I'm sort of left forking here but I'm not I don't know that we can assume the religious beliefs of a super intelligent say that again the religious beliefs of a super intelligent or something like that obscure to us to some extent yeah um the other thing I just wanted to say was going back to this…
02:52:12
I mean does anyone think we need to sort out anything institutional at this at this point everyone's got my everyone can contact me fine can't they I mean you've got my email and you've got the classroom and no one feels that they've got any difficulties with that we should do a follow up session once people have…