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🗓️ 7 September 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome loyal into the impossible listeners or maybe you're just simulated listeners. |
0:12.8 | Maybe I'm simulated. |
0:14.6 | Who's to know? |
0:15.8 | All I know is that this interview with Nick Bostrom was a bucketless conversation, which |
0:20.8 | we went deep talking about the most important topics in all of science perhaps |
0:27.0 | the nature of existence. Whether or not we are simulations depends on whether or not you take seriously what's called |
0:35.0 | Super Intelligence. We talked about that from his phenomenal 2014 book of the same name. |
0:40.2 | We also discussed a wide variety of topics including whether or not the Earth should |
0:46.9 | fear depopulation more than fearing aliens or perhaps what is called ominously the Great Filter. |
0:55.0 | Talked about a tremendous variety of subjects ranging from the risk of super intelligent AI |
1:02.0 | to whether or not humanity has witnessed its first global scale |
1:05.8 | phenomena for the first time documented by high performance computing devices, cameras, and |
1:11.0 | humans, if you assume that we are human and not just simulated, if we're simulated, |
1:15.8 | then it really shouldn't be such a big deal to get my kids to fold their laundry. |
1:20.0 | If these Alphafold computer algorithms and machines can do the same thing. |
1:24.2 | Why can't my kids fold their d'- All right, I'm going off on a tangent. |
1:27.5 | Sorry about that, but this was really a delightful discussion with Nick Bostromo's |
1:32.0 | originally born in Sweden, along with past guests, Max Taggmart, |
1:37.0 | and future guests, the Abba Group. |
1:39.0 | Now hopefully, we can get on some musical entertainment |
1:42.0 | that's a little bit younger than |
1:43.8 | Abba but he is currently a professor at Oxford University where he has the |
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