AI presidents discuss AI alignment agendas

This is the future of education. I don't think I would have otherwise spent 22 minutes listening to a discussion of pros and cons of various research agendas.

This was hilarious, thanks for making it!

The statements strike me as more credible and more interesting than they would be delivering in the speaking style of the people who usually talk on the topic, but then it is no surprise that winners of presidential elections have compelling vocal skills.

Things I think would have improved this a lot, for me:

• a visual indicator of who was "speaking"; this could be as simple as a light gray box around the "speaker"
• significantly larger "inflection" in the voice. More dynamic range. More variance in loudness and pitch. I don't know how easy or hard this is to tune with the tools used, but the voices all felt much flatter than my brain wanted them to sound
• more visual going on in general; a scrolling transcipt on the right, maybe

Importing some very early comments from YouTube, which I do not endorse (I'd have to think longer), but which are perhaps interesting for documenting history, and tracking influence campaigns and (/me shrugs) who knows what else?? (Sorted to list upvotes and then recency higher.)

@Fiolsthu95 3 hours ago +2

I didn't ever think I'd say this but.. based Trump?!?

@henrysleight7768 1 hour ago +1

"What Everyone in Technical Alignment is Doing and Why" could literally never 

@scottbanana1 3 hours ago +1

The best content on YouTube

@anishupadhayay3917 14 minutes ago +0

Brilliant

@Mvnt6 26 minutes ago +0

"S-tier, the s is for sociohazard" 12:25

@gnip4561 1 hour ago +0

Never did I ever thought that I'd agree with Donald Trump so much

@johnmalin4933 2 hours ago +0

I found this insightful. Reply 

@SheikhEddy 2 hours ago +0

I can't stop laughing

Generally S-tier content. This video has motivated me to look into specific agendas I haven't had a closer look at yet (am planning on looking into shard theory first). Please keep going.

Would say I think some of the jokes at the beginning could've been handled a bit better, but I also don't have any specific advice to offer..

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I enjoyed this enough to commit to watching it again in two weeks.

This was really great. Thanks for making it.

Nice touch that Barack is on your LW page ;)

This is an infohazard: I now feel somewhat well-disposed towards Trump.

Nothing on the cooperative AI agenda? E.g. Gillian Hadfield has suggested that alignment is nothing but sensitivity to normative infrastructure i.e. cooperation (I don't know if this is a publicly expressed opinion anywhere) and a lot of others consider it a top priority even if they don't state it so strongly. (I disagree with the strong claim, while being presently agnostic/clueless to the priority.)