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An excerpt from the beginning of "The Conquest of Happiness" by Bertrand Russell. This piece is on the pursuit of sin, and reconciling your values with your actions. My pleasures are not my vices, but the outward world doesn't quite agree.

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Bertrand Russell on the Pursuit of Sin

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Source: P.45 The Conquest of Happiness

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Bertrand Russell on the Intellectual Pleasures

Source: P.56 The Conquest of Happiness

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Bertrand Russell On Boredom

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The inaugural Reith Lecturer is the philosopher, mathematician, and social reformer Bertrand Russell. One of the founders of analytic philosophy and a Nobel Laureate, he is the author of Principia Mathematica, and the bestselling History of Western Philosophy, written in 1946. His Reith lecture series is entitled 'Authority and the Individual'.

In his third lecture, entitled 'The Role of Individuality', he considers the importance of individual initiative to a community, and argues for flexibility, local autonomy, and less centralisation in society. Modern organisations, he says, must be more flexible and less oppressive to the human spirit if life is to be saved from boredom.

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Over the past several centuries, the human condition has been profoundly changed by the agricultural and industrial revolutions. With the creation and continued development of AI, we stand in the midst of an ongoing intelligence revolution that may prove far more transformative than the previous two. How did we get here, and what were the intellectual foundations necessary for the creation of AI? What benefits might we realize from aligned AI systems, and what are the risks and potential pitfalls along the way? In the longer term, will superintelligent AI systems pose an existential risk to humanity? Steven Pinker, best selling author and Professor of Psychology at Harvard, and Stuart Russell, UC Berkeley Professor of Computer Science, join us on this episode of the AI Alignment Podcast to discuss these questions and more.

 Topics discussed in this episode include:

-The historical and intellectual foundations of AI 
-How AI systems achieve or do not achieve intelligence in the same way as the human mind
-The rise of AI and what it signifies 
-The benefits and risks of AI in both the short and long term 
-Whether superintelligent AI will pose an existential risk to humanity

You can find the page for this podcast here: https://futureoflife.org/2020/06/15/steven-pinker-and-stuart-russell-on-the-foundations-benefits-and-possible-existential-risk-of-ai/

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Timestamps: 

0:00 Intro 
4:30 The historical and intellectual foundations of AI 
11:11 Moving beyond dualism 
13:16 Regarding the objectives of an agent as fixed 
17:20 The distinction between artificial intelligence and deep learning 
22:00 How AI systems achieve or do not achieve intelligence in the same way as the human mind
49:46 What changes to human society does the rise of AI signal? 
54:57 What are the benefits and risks of AI? 
01:09:38 Do superintelligent AI systems pose an existential threat to humanity? 
01:51:30 Where to find and follow Steve and Stuart

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Steven Pinker and Stuart Russell on the Foundations, Benefits, and Possible Existential Threat of AI

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Jess Thorne joins us to discuss the life and passing of Stuart Christie, one of the UK's most famous anarchists who is perhaps best known for participating in a plot to assasinate Franco in 1964.

We also discuss the radical prisoner support group which Christie refounded, the memorial archive and the value of past struggles in informing our politics today. 

Jess’s obituary of Christie: https://maydayrooms.org/stuart_christie/

You can give money to the archive fundraiser here: 

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34 - Stuart Christie's Life and Legacy w/ The Stuart Christie Memorial Archive

The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a nonprofit working to reduce global catastrophic and existential risk from powerful technologies. In particular, FLI focuses on risks from artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, nuclear weapons and climate change.

The Institute's work is made up of three main strands: grantmaking for risk reduction, educational outreach, and advocacy within the United Nations, US government and European Union institutions.

FLI has become one of the world's leading voices on the governance of AI having created one of the earliest and most influential sets of governance principles: the Asilomar AI Principles.

Steven Pinker and Stuart Russell on the Foundations, Benefits, and Possible Existential Threat of AI

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