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Natural selection
The process by which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
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Lex Fridman suggests that AI's danger is tied to its intelligence and alienness, not its growth rate.
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Yudkowsky critiques natural selection as inefficient, contrasting it with AI's rapid optimization.
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