#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness
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🗓️ 21 August 2021
⏱️ 199 minutes
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:15) – Life is hard
(09:38) – Consciousness
(16:24) – What is life?
(26:33) – Free will
(40:38) – Simulation
(42:49) – Base layer of reality
(58:24) – Boston Dynamics
(1:06:43) – Engineering consciousness
(1:17:12) – Suffering
(1:26:06) – Postmodernism
(1:30:25) – Psychedelics
(1:43:40) – GPT-3
(1:52:22) – GPT-4
(1:58:47) – OpenAI Codex
(2:01:02) – Humans vs AI: Who is more dangerous?
(2:17:47) – Hitler
(2:22:44) – Autonomous weapon systems
(2:30:11) – Mark Zuckerberg
(2:35:47) – Love
(2:50:00) – Michael Malice and anarchism
(3:06:57) – Love
(3:11:05) – Advice for young people
(3:15:42) – Meaning of life
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Yoshabah, his second time on the podcast. |
| 0:04.9 | Yoshabah is one of the most fascinating minds in the world, exploring the nature of intelligence, |
| 0:10.6 | cognition, computation, and consciousness. |
| 0:14.5 | To support this podcast, please check out our sponsors, Coinbase, Codecademy, Linnode, |
| 0:21.1 | NetSuite, and ExpressVPN. |
| 0:23.9 | Their links are in the description. |
| 0:26.7 | As usual, I'll do a few minutes of ads now, no ads in the middle. |
| 0:30.6 | I try to make these interesting, so hopefully you don't skip, but if you do, please still |
| 0:35.6 | check out the sponsors in the description. |
| 0:38.9 | It's the best way to support this podcast. |
| 0:41.3 | I use their stuff and enjoy it, so maybe you will too. |
| 0:45.6 | This show is brought to you by Coinbase, which is a trusted and easy-to-use platform to |
| 0:51.2 | buy, sell, and spend cryptocurrency. |
| 0:54.2 | I use it and love it. |
| 0:56.5 | You can buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cardano, Dogecoin, the list goes on, all the most popular |
| 1:02.9 | digital currencies. |
| 1:04.7 | It's the place I recommend to people all the time if they're kind of curious about cryptocurrency. |
| 1:09.1 | Coinbase just makes it super easy to buy whatever cryptocurrency you want. |
| 1:13.8 | I think Cryptocurrency space is very exciting, so if you're missing out on it, I think |
| 1:20.1 | some percent of the upper folly that should be in cryptocurrency. |
| 1:24.5 | Investing in a little bit of cryptocurrency, I think puts your money where your mind is. |
| 1:33.2 | It forces you to explore this space more and more. |
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