Emmett Shear
23 statements across 2 episodes · 8 bullish · 6 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 17, 2019 by Justin Kan · said 3 times in 1 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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May 17, 2019 positive
Justin Kan: Emmett Shear Was the Only Founder Who Believed in Twitch
“When we pivoted Justin TV to Twitch, nobody believed that there would, and this was a market, right? No one believed, no investors, very few of our, even internal employees like believe, and even the founders were skeptical. You know, Emmett deserves the credi…”
Nov 17, 2025
Nov 17, 2025 negative
Nov 17, 2025 positive
Shear: AI minds are identifiable via self-referential structures in belief manifolds
“One of the things I would want to go look for, which you could totally do, is I want to go look in the manifold of its, the belief manifold, and I want to go, See if that belief manifold encodes a sub-manifold that is self-referential, and a sub-sub-manifold t…”
Nov 17, 2025 neutral
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Nov 17, 2025 negative
Nov 17, 2025
Emmett Shear: Long-term humanlike behavior warrants inferring AI personhood
“If under, if its surface level behaviors looked like a human, and then if after I probed it continued to act like a human, and then I continued to interact with it over a long period of time, and it continued to act like a human in all ways that I understand a…”
Nov 17, 2025 positive
Shear: AI alignment requires pre-training on full game-theoretic manifolds
“You have to get it to, it has to be trained on the full manifold of every possible game theoretic situation, every possible team situation, every possible making teams, breaking teams, changing the rules, not changing the rules, all of that stuff. And then it …”
Nov 17, 2025 positive
Nov 17, 2025 positive
Shear: Dog-Level AI Care Would Be Useful Even Without Human Intelligence
“To even have an AI creature that cared about the other members of its pack and the humans in its pack, the way that like a dog cares about other dogs and cares about humans, would be an incredible achievement and would be, would, even if it wasn't as smart as …”
Nov 17, 2025
Emmett Shear: Non-verbal care is more fundamental than explicit goals or values
“I think what's happening is that there's something deeper than a goal. And deeper than a value, which is care. We give a shit. We care about things and care is not conceptual. Care is nonverbal. It doesn't indicate what to do. It doesn't indicate how to do it.”
Nov 17, 2025 neutral
Nov 17, 2025 neutral
Nov 17, 2025 negative
Shear: AI labs must abandon control paradigms when building AGI
“As you go from what we have today, which is mostly a very specific intelligence, not a general intelligence, but as labs succeed at their goal of building this general intelligence, We really need to stop using the steering control paradigm.”
Nov 17, 2025 positive
Shear: Softmax is building toward a peer-based human and AI future
“So we have this awesome suite of AI tools used by us and our AI brethren who care about each other and want to build a glorious future together. I think that would be a really beautiful future. And it's the one we're trying to build.”
Nov 17, 2025 negative
Nov 17, 2025
Shear: In AI agents, care equates to loss and reward correlation
“Care is basically like reward. Like how much does this state correlate with survival? How much does this state correlate with your inclusive, your full inclusive reproductive fitness? For a somewhat thing that learns evolutionarily, or for a reinforcement lear…”
Nov 17, 2025
Emmett Shear: Goal-based alignment covers only a tiny fraction of human experience
“Goals are one level of alignment. You can align something around goals. The kind of goals we're talking about here are one level of alignment. You can align something around goals by like if you can explicitly articulate in concept and in description, the stat…”
Nov 17, 2025 negative
Nov 17, 2025 bullish
Shear: Any true AGI will inherently be a sentient being
“And we are clearly, they're saying they're building an AGI, and AGI will be a being. You can't be an AGI and not be a being, because something that has the general ability to effectively use judgment, think for itself, discern between possibilities is obviousl…”
Nov 17, 2025 negative