Bret and Heather 167th DarkHorse Podcast Livestream: AGI: Where Will it End?

In this 167th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens. It’s our three-year anniversary doing these livestreams!

This week we revisit raccoon dogs and the origins of SARS-CoV2. Then: Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT—should we be worried? If so, how worried? Bret proposes three categories of AI: malevolent, misaligned, and deranging. Finally: trans ideology and activism: trans-women will not be allowed to compete against women in international sports. And men are allowed to shut down women on a #LetWomenSpeak tour, so long as they claim to be women, or to be speaking for men who claim to be women. This is not the next civil rights battle; this is a battle for reality.

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Mentioned in this episode:

“Report” by CritsChristoph et al, 2023, on “Genetic evidence of susceptible wildlife in SARSCoV2 positive samples at the Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market”

You must not ‘do your own research’ when it comes to science. From Forbes, July 2020

Bubeck et al 2023. Sparks of Artificial General IntelligenceEarly experiments with GPT4.

BentleyCondit & Smith 2010. Animal tool usecurrent definitions and an updated comprehensive catalog. Behaviour, 147(2)18532A.

Yudkowsky 2003Who cares if humanity is doomed?

World Athletics Council March 23, 2023 press release

Guilt by association, in The Spectator, by Petra Bueskens, 32223

Livestream from KellieJay Keen event in Auckland, New Zealand, 32423

Trans activists make women terrified for their safety at the Let Women Speak rally in New Zealand. By Katrina Biggs, 32523

Posie Parker on twitter after the assault

The Paradox Institute’s pamphlet on myths of genderaffirming care

PSA to the Mama BearsDo Not Affirm, Do Not Comply

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Welcome

(06:25) Sponsors

(16:51) Quinoa spelling

(17:50) 3 year anniversary

(23:30) Raccoon dog update

(41:05) Biologists examining ChatGPT

(54:52) Paperclip maximizer and sex determining AIs

(01:11:16) Taxonomy of horrors

(01:17:03) Tool use, liberating potential, and wealth extraction

(01:27:15) How does ChatGPT reason?

(01:32:00) Trans and World Athletics Council

(01:39:18) Attack on Posie Parker

(01:58:28) Auckland Pride and JK Rowling

(02:02:50) Wrap up