28,548 claims · page 48 of 286
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| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | By default, super intelligences end up wanting to hurt us and it's hard to make them not do that was missing on your list. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | And that's the point where you need to do philosophy in advance that compiles. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | The production of systematic correlations between map and territory, is one way of being more specific about what the word rationality… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | Oh, there are technological developments where you can see ways that they would end poorly. It's not every technology that ends up well. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | If you're running the AI that can build the AI that builds that AI and you're not stopping, that's also it. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | It's not clear that all the pieces are in place and we just need to pile up more of the same stuff. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | So if you imagine that there's just like generic apocalypses coming at you out of nowhere with a fixed frequency, the longer the history… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not researched | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | In 2000 Eliezer Yudkowsky believed that a very smart AI would automatically end up very nice. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | Those AIs, probably all agree, trees are made of atoms. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | These things are dangerous to the extent that they are planning in the real world and can roll out their own technologies from scratch, or… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | But as long as they find it convincing to say, yeah, somebody else will do it anyway, they are going to do it. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | It's this color over here. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | I now think that this is actually mistaken, and that's not a vibe shift. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | Conversation seems like a much harder problem than writing code, and I would've been wrong. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not researched | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | AI systems that are very good at chess have not destroyed the world. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not researched | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | The written book does not cover all objections to its argument; some additional objections are considered in an online supplement. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | I wish that it were under better circumstances and I wish the book title were an exaggeration. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | They're like, oh, somebody else will press it. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not researched | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | The speaker says that the person he is describing, who "saw through from there to nuclear weapons", saw that he should not publish his idea because it was a bit dangerous. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | Science and research methods |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | The part where humans need to do philosophy in advance is when there's more than one reflective fix point or self approving… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | There is no physical bar to building a tree that buds off mosquitoes. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | if your virus isn't clever enough, you just need to seed it with more packages. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not researched | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | Yudkowsky said the very first place he carved out an exception to a general view of his was in the discussion about nanotechnology; the surrounding text does not say what that view was. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | A delayed-critical nuclear reactor receiving 0.65% more neutrons would literally explode, not just melt down. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | Other global risks |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | If you say that somebody else is gonna press it, instead, let them kill everyone. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | And at least, so far, it seems like in a lot of ways, the person on the street is wiser. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | Once you've set the bottom line, once you if you imagine a sheet of paper and then you write at the bottom of the sheet of the paper… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not researched | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | AI has been used to optimize social media algorithms for outrage and clicks, and arguably contributed to political shifts involving a collapse of the use of expertise in government institutions. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | AI policy and governance |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | I would normally ask you for a specific example at this point, but probably your viewers have already seen many specific examples, and so I… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | Trying to do it inside a human brain is playing on hard mode. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | Excellent concrete example. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | I realized that my original model of reality had been mistaken. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | You can have things that steer the galaxy toward happily ever after for all life forms. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | Here's the thing, this is not that hard. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | It helps discriminate, distinguish. It doesn't nail it down perfectly, but it shifts the probability. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | there is no canonical objection to why we're all going to die. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not researched | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | Leo Szilard foresaw that Hitler was likely to be a problem. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | Science and research methods |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | There's, try to say more narrowly which things count or don't count under your theory. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Mostly true | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | The conservation of mass was one of the first hints that things are rearranged rather than created or destroyed. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | Science and research methods |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | I mean, everybody literally actually dead as in ceasing to breathe. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not researched | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | Leo Szilard did not foresee that the first atomic bomb would be dropped in August 1945. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | Science and research methods |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | It doesn't matter what you write above the bottom line afterwards, it's already true or already false. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not researched | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | Diamond is made out of carbon. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | Science and research methods |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | Yes, you should. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | Still pro building a whole lot of nuclear power plants. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | Yep, and I stand by that today as well. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | All correct views of cognitive science, computer science are the same. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | I do not quickly expect that we will die before this video releases. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | So your brain is in the middle of a hurricane being buffeted about by many forces that are echoes of past forces. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | They reach around for a reason to say that they can keep going. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | In fact, I'm surprised that there isn't more automatic translation already and have been for a while. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | If you have reason to believe that they're only telling you some of the evidence or even that they're only telling you some of the… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Resolved true | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | Burning a substance inside a sealed glass vessel does not change the total weight. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | Science and research methods |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | I certainly have a very negative reaction to people who are projecting certainty and confidence when they don’t really know what’s going to… Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | But in the short term, I think you probably have to find some really good partners that know a lot about manufacturing Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | The main thing I would say is using AI itself does not create a defensible business. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | Some of them yes and some of them no. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | We’re going to have to undo some damage, too, even if we got to switch to fusion right away. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Mostly true | Sam Altman | Factual | 15 Aug 2025 | GPT-5 is not close to human performance at figuring out what questions to ask or working on a task over a very long period. Sam Altman · Factual · 15 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | Maybe the one thing that I think we have done here well is to take a very long time horizon and think very independently. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | I certainly remember the time feeling that it was very deeply undeserved, but grateful that he said that. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 15 Aug 2025 | Seeing robots walk down the street doing everyday tasks will be one of the most AGI-like experiences. Sam Altman · Prediction · 15 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | So I’m actually not sure they do go down in a deflationary world. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | the best founders that I have watched up close throughout my career have all been more like the sort of quick learning and adapting style. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | If you build a business that gets better when the model gets better, then you should keep doing well if we continue to make progress. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | So 20 kettles doesn’t help you. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | It does seem to me like there are more companies getting created now than in previous technological revolutions that feel like they have a… Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | And I think there are a lot of categories where we will find that people can just get much better stuff even if they don’t necessarily get… Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | I do sort of think that human demand, desire, ability to play status games, whatever is, is it seems pretty limitless. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | Getting good at doing things models can’t do seems like an obvious increase in value. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Factual | 15 Aug 2025 | Selling flashlight apps was not a lasting business because Apple eventually added that function to its operating system. Sam Altman · Factual · 15 Aug 2025 | Technology |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | I think that’s also deep in our biology. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | So with GPT-5, you have something that is incredibly smart in a lot of domains. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | one of our strengths as a company is when that happens, we change what we’re going to do. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | It’s really amazing what you can do with a tool like this. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | I think it’s a real problem for society that those things have been in retreat. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | People are limited to a degree that they’ve never been before only by the quality and creativity of their ideas. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | You’ve always got to parlay that advantage that comes from using the new technology into a durable business with real value that gets… Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | So you can definitely build an amazing thing with AI, but then you have to go build a real defensible layer around it. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 15 Aug 2025 | India may become OpenAI's largest market in the world at some point in the not very distant future. Sam Altman · Prediction · 15 Aug 2025 | Economics and markets |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | I would bet they go up, actually. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | People really care about other humans. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 15 Aug 2025 | Being a real person will increase in value in a world of unlimited AI content. Sam Altman · Prediction · 15 Aug 2025 | AI, the economy and work |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | Yeah, that’s a good point. I think so. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | I think that’s really happening already in a big way. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | my own self conception at 19 was deeply unsure of myself and very unimpressive. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | learning how to use AI tools is probably the most important specific hard skill to learn. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | It certainly helps a lot. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | Yeah, generally I agree with that. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | So we’re committed to continuing to work on that. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | I am very excited about what AI is going to mean for science Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | A thing I say all the time to people is no one knows what happens next. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | I think you could build an entire startup way more efficiently than you ever could before. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | To prove an important new mathematical theorem maybe takes a thousand hours. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | But if you started something that was complicated and the iPhone was just an enabler for it, like Uber, that was a very valuable long term… Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | I mean certainly real people do screw up. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 15 Aug 2025 | An AI podcast host is unlikely to become more popular than Nikhil Kamath. Sam Altman · Prediction · 15 Aug 2025 | Technology |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | If you build a business where, when the model gets better, your business gets worse because the wrapper was too thin or whatever, then… Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | I think no one has a plan. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 15 Aug 2025 | It’s just worse at everything. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 15 Aug 2025 |
“So with GPT-5, you have something that is incredibly smart in a lot of domains.”
Sam Altman 15 August 2025 Sam Altman: How to Win When AI Changes Everything (Transcript) (Singju Post)
So with GPT-5, you have something that is incredibly smart in a lot of domains.
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Sam Altman, “So with GPT-5, you have something that is incredibly smart in a lot of domains.” (said 15 August 2025). Verdict: not checkable. Reliability API, claim c_5aafbfdfd3bf, method 0.1.0+c876030c. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_5aafbfdfd3bf
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