Nabeel Qureshi

“When you have a child, how do you educate the child? You teach it morals or you teach it religion or whatever, you imbue it with the right values. It kind of figures out what you mean by them in some mysterious way. And then it ends up behaving in roughly the ways you want it to.”

“I think Vitalik came up with this term, defensive acceleration. The idea is simply that you, the good guys get the AIs first, and then you kind of patch up the world such that it's very robust.”

“I think one of the philosophers that's very important for the current moment is Nick Land. And I think it's because he puts his finger on in this concept of just pure acceleration — acceleration with no human end or purpose in mind.”