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Hi, I'm Eliezer, well-known Harry Potter fan fiction author.
[00:00:09] Geoffrey Irving
I'm Geoffrey Irving, I'm now the Chief Scientist of Resolution. I was at, for better or worse, various labs before, and also AISI.
[00:00:17] Eliezer Yudkowsky
And Pixar.
[00:00:18] Geoffrey Irving
And Pixar.
[00:00:20] Eliezer Yudkowsky
So we're going to try to resolve all of our open disagreements over the course of the next hour. An impossible task, but not as impossible as some, really. So I would pro... (read more)
Here's one transcript + AI cleanup https://peruse.sh/ep/eliezer-yudkowsky-geoffrey-irving-debate
Happy to turn it into a top level LW post if people would like that!
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Don't know how useful this is to note, but I tried opening up the automated transcript to help me follow along with the spoken debate, and within the first paragraph of doing so I saw:
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Is presented incorrectly. What is actually said in the transcript is:
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Implying alchemy = poking-at-things-based-search ≠ heuristic-based search ≈ thinking carefully. The way it's written in-transcript implies the positions of PaTBS and HBS would be swapped. This was pretty confusing, and if it's the first thing I saw in the transcript, I suspect the full thing contains other errors of similar degree. Given this, I think the transcript should be cleaned up (by hand, probably) before being turned into a top-level post.