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


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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)

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