I was interviewed while on Day 8 of Hunger Strike
"I came back and I read Lesswrong and I looked, okay two years have passed and absolutely nothing has changed. The capabilities have increased a lot from 2022 2023 to 2025. AI capabilities have gone further a lot but all these people talking about safety risk governance, it's the same people, the same boring speeches, the same arguments that happen on lesswrong. Nothing has changed. It's the same funders, Moskowitz and Jaan Tallin doing the same sort of work which I don't really believe in. And I am now starting to realize, look if I don't personally do something in this space, the fate of the entire species might be at stake, and that is an almost overwhelming sort of responsibility to be dealing with."
"Even by 2035 you're looking at an atleast 40%-50% chance that we will build super intelligence. So at that point you realize, look if you're making a life plan that does not take into account the fact that super intelligence might be created on this earth, what are you doing with your life? That's just a bad move."
"There's a difference between, look the world is on fire and I'm upset about this but I won't you know all of this to overwhelm me or I won't show this to the public. I will be the calm voice in the face of the storm. And there is another way of processing it, which is look, the world is on fire and look, I don't care about this at all, and I'm just going to do my thing because I never cared about this in the first place."
00:00 Preview 01:37 Samuel's Background 11:27 Why hunger strike? 15:36 Is this an emergency? 27:37 How are you? 31:52 Family and friends 33:25 What next? 34:48 Force versus persuasion 39:00 Outro