Liron Shapira is an entrepreneur, angel investor, and CEO of counseling startup Relationship Hero. He’s also a rationalist, advisor for the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and Center for Applied Rationality, and a consistently candid AI doom pointer-outer.
Liron’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/liron
Liron’s Substack: https://lironshapira.substack.com/
Liron’s old blog, Bloated MVP: https://www.bloatedmvp.com
TJP LINKS:
YouTube: https://youtu.be/YfEcAtHExFM
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/theo-jaffee-podcast/id1699912677
Playlist of all episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVN8-zhbMh9YnOGVRT9m0xzqTNGD_sujj
My Twitter: https://x.com/theojaffee
My Substack: https://www.theojaffee.com
CHAPTERS:
Intro (0:00)
Non-AI x-risks (0:53)
AI non-x-risks (3:00)
p(doom) (5:21)
Liron vs. Eliezer (12:18)
Why might doom not happen? (15:42)
Elon Musk and AGI (17:12)
Alignment vs. Governance (20:24)
Scott Alexander lowering p(doom) (22:32)
Human minds vs ASI minds (28:01)
Vitalik Buterin and d/acc (33:30)
Carefully bootstrapped alignment (35:22)
GPT vs AlphaZero (41:55)
Belrose & Pope AI Optimism (43:17)
AI doom meets daily life (57:57)
Israel vs. Hamas (1:02:17)
Rationalism (1:06:15)
Crypto (1:14:50)
Charlie Munger and Richard Feynman (1:22:12)
