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@So8res just told me the scariest thing I’ve ever heard about AI:
“AI isn’t here to replace your job — it’s here to replace you.”
Nate Soares is the president of @MIRIBerkeley, researching real alignment risks. He and @ESYudkowsky wrote "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies"
This conversation will stay with you.
🔗 Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=zM6tfKUH…
"Did anything weird happen at school today?"
Not "how was your day." The surprise is the whole mechanism — which is why, as Tania Lombrozo points out, you cannot ask it twice.
"What are the alternatives? What are your sources? What's the argument against that?"
Tania Lombrozo: good teaching trains those questions into you. A chatbot will not. "Unless you are bringing that to the interaction, you're not going to get that for free."
"We tend to overestimate our own explanatory understanding of how things work."
Tania Lombrozo on the illusion of explanatory depth — and why it applies to tax policy as much as it does to zippers.
A bat brushed her cheek in a cave. She decided not to worry about rabies.
A week later: numb tongue, scratchy throat, and an infected scratch on that same cheek.
Every symptom fits. Tania Lombrozo on how we decide what explains what.
Is your kid just trying to annoy you with endless "why"? Psychologist Tania Lombrozo explains what researchers wanted to know about those chains of questions: are kids really looking for explanations?
You fall down a rabbit hole for two hours, thoroughly enjoy it, and afterwards cannot say what you learned.
Tania Lombrozo on why effortless explanation can mean learning less.
Every parent knows the endless chain of "why?"
Is the kid actually after an explanation, or just keeping an adult talking? Researchers tested it.
Tania Lombrozo on the answer.
The self-explanation effect: stopping to ask yourself questions while reading beats reading it twice.
No new information involved — just deeper processing.
Tania Lombrozo on how learning actually works.
"How was your day at school?" Fine.
"Why did practice run late?" It just does sometimes.
Every parent of a teenager knows that wall. Tania Lombrozo on what is actually happening in those exchanges.
Pretty cool to see my comments picked up by OK! and syndicated to Yahoo, AOL and MSN — quoted alongside Aaron Sorkin on his new film The Social Reckoning.
Can a movie move the needle on Big Tech where Congress hasn't?
"When you explain something to a kid, they can repeat it back to you. When your kid explains it to you, they can actually use it."
Tania Lombrozo on what we give up when something else does the explaining.