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Author of The End of Faith, The Moral Landscape, Waking Up, and other bestselling books published in over 20 languages. Host of the Waking Up podcast.

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    Sam Harris‏Verified account @SamHarrisOrg 23 Dec 2017

    My recent conversation with @ajjacobs is now available: "The Change Artist" https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/the-change-artist … #WakingUpPodcastpic.twitter.com/eLOJXTJkAY

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      2. Panny‏ @DannyM2112 23 Dec 2017
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg @ajjacobs

        Where is the audio for Shapiro and you!!! I need a mind boner.

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      4. Panny‏ @DannyM2112 23 Dec 2017
        Replying to @Atticus_Amber @SamHarrisOrg @ajjacobs

        I have enthusiasm because they are both intelligent people and good speakers, Just because I don't agree with Shapiro doesn't mean I can't listen to him. I definitely won't call him an idiot because he has different opinions..

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      2. Jane MacArthur‏ @jmacarth 25 Dec 2017
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg @ajjacobs

        Wow - terrific listening on my Boxing Day destress bouncy walk (not quite a jog) My partner tramatised a Jehovahs Witness who came knocking - he asked him "how do I know you're not the anti christ" JV "because not true" MP "that's what he would say too" 😱

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      3. elizabeth‏ @elizpingree 27 Dec 2017
        Replying to @jmacarth @SamHarrisOrg @ajjacobs

        I studied with the Jehovah’s Witnesses for one year out of curiosity.

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      2. Producer Dave‏ @Plex_Dave 23 Dec 2017
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg @ajjacobs

        You're atheist Deepak Choprahttp://www.echoplexmedia.com/new-blog/2017/11/4/is-sam-harris-atheisms-deepak-chopra …

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      3. Jonathan Woodruff‏ @JonathanWoodr14 23 Dec 2017
        Replying to @Plex_Dave @SamHarrisOrg @ajjacobs

        There's absolutely nothing in this tripe worth anyone's attention. I did the dirty work by reading it so that you don't have to.

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      2. Paul Holland‏ @Paul_Hol1000 23 Dec 2017
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg @ajjacobs

        Please have a guest to discuss Russia who's neutral. Naill Ferguson or Steve Cohen. Thanks.

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      3. Keisenberg  🇬🇧‏ @KeisenbergUK 24 Dec 2017
        Replying to @Paul_Hol1000 @SamHarrisOrg @ajjacobs

        I’d love him to discuss this with @ClarkeMicah

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      4. Paul Holland‏ @Paul_Hol1000 24 Dec 2017
        Replying to @KeisenbergUK @SamHarrisOrg and

        Yes. That would be epic.

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      1. Alec Whitsell‏ @Aleck_indeed 26 Dec 2017
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg @ajjacobs

        Still waiting on the Ben shapiro podcast.... which was had before this one... @benshapiro

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      1. elizabeth‏ @elizpingree 25 Dec 2017
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg @ajjacobs

        When my dad died, using http://ancestry.com  to trace his family was so therapeutic for me. I am so excited for the humankind family tree!

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      1. John Matheson‏ @jajmatheson 23 Dec 2017
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg

        Love your podcast font, Sam.

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      2. Kevin‏ @Intrinsic29 27 Dec 2017
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg @ajjacobs

        One thing to consider on changing values: Imagine an AI whose behavior is focuses on optimizing some set of its intrinsic and instrumental values. Then imagine it can change some of these values on the fly with X difficulty. If that AI ever finds an obstacle to optimizing its...

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      3. Kevin‏ @Intrinsic29 27 Dec 2017
        Replying to @Intrinsic29 @SamHarrisOrg @ajjacobs

        ...values that's more difficult to overcome than X, the most optimal behavior for optimizing its values will then be to change its values. As X gets easier and easier, less and less real-world obstacles may get overcome. This could even be an answer to the Fermi Paradox.

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      4. CritRat‏ @Crit_Rat 28 Dec 2017
        Replying to @Intrinsic29 @SamHarrisOrg @ajjacobs

        It’s a good thing “people” (including AIs) don’t want to optimize their values 😛

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      5. Kevin‏ @Intrinsic29 28 Dec 2017
        Replying to @Crit_Rat @SamHarrisOrg @ajjacobs

        What do you mean?

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      6. CritRat‏ @Crit_Rat 28 Dec 2017
        Replying to @Intrinsic29 @SamHarrisOrg @ajjacobs

        If people wanted to optimise their values like you suggested above, then we should expect meat eaters to adapt to values like “harming animals is good.” Rather, people try to find/produce good explanations and act according to those.

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      7. Kevin‏ @Intrinsic29 28 Dec 2017
        Replying to @Crit_Rat @SamHarrisOrg @ajjacobs

        Thus the qualified "...some set of its values..." It's not enough to say agents "satisfy" some set of their values because it's very common for them to sacrifice some short-term values in order to satisfy other long term values. That's why the term "optimize" is more accurate.

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      8. Kevin‏ @Intrinsic29 28 Dec 2017
        Replying to @Intrinsic29 @Crit_Rat and

        People have complex sets of values that often contradict one another and the more intrinsic a value is, the more difficult (or impossible in practice) it is to adjust. And "harming animals is good" is a proposition, not a value in this context.

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      9. CritRat‏ @Crit_Rat 28 Dec 2017
        Replying to @Intrinsic29 @SamHarrisOrg @ajjacobs

        Yes, fair enough. But then values are derived from propositions, aren’t they? I think your original point was that certain values are harder to achieve than they are to change. If so, there must be scenarios of the kind I tried to describe.

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