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#392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans

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Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.7 β€’ 13K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 179 minutes

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Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(06:26) - Stages of life
(18:48) - Identity
(25:24) - Enlightenment
(31:55) - Adaptive Resonance Theory
(38:42) - Panpsychism
(48:42) - How to think
(56:36) - Plants communication
(1:14:31) - Fame
(1:40:09) - Happiness
(1:47:26) - Artificial consciousness
(1:59:35) - Suffering
(2:04:19) - Eliezer Yudkowsky
(2:11:55) - e/acc (Effective Accelerationism)
(2:17:33) - Mind uploading
(2:28:22) - Vision Pro
(2:32:36) - Open source AI
(2:45:29) - Twitter
(2:52:44) - Advice for young people
(2:55:40) - Meaning of life

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following is a conversation with Yosha Bach his third time on this podcast.

0:04.0

Yosha is one of the most brilliant and fascinating minds in the world

0:07.8

exploring the nature of intelligence, consciousness, and computation.

0:12.1

And he's one of my favorite humans to talk to about pretty much anything and everything.

0:19.0

And now a quick few second mention of his sponsor. Check them out in the description.

0:23.0

It's the best way to support this podcast. We got Numerai for the world's hardest data science

0:27.6

tournament, aid sleep, for naps, masterclass, for learning, and age you want for health.

0:33.7

Choose well as in my friends. Also, if you want to work with our amazing team, we're always

0:38.0

hiring, go to lexfreedman.com slash hiring. And now onto the full ad reads.

0:43.2

As always, no ads in the middle. I try to make this interesting, but if you must skip them,

0:47.3

please still check out our sponsors. I enjoy their stuff, maybe you will too.

0:51.4

This show is brought to you by Numerai, a hedge fund that uses AI and machine learning to

0:57.6

make investment decisions. It's basically a super difficult machine learning tournament that

1:03.6

uses real data and people's submitted models that try to predict the market. I love difficult

1:11.1

real world data sets. You may know that for a long time and still, I've been interested in real

1:17.6

world robotics. One of the largest scale deployment of real world robotics is autonomous vehicles.

1:24.8

Autonomous driving and semi-autonomous driving the stakes are very high. The same is true for

1:30.0

financial markets. And so it's really interesting that Numerai presents to you the real world data

1:35.6

financial markets and presents you an easy accessible mechanism by which to test, deploy,

1:41.4

and compete with others in this kind of data set. So it's a really great way if you're

1:46.0

interested in data science and machine learning to learn, to compete, to have fun, all that kind

1:52.0

of stuff. Head over to Numerai.ai slash lex to sign up for a tournament and whole new machine

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