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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Thomas Pike: Preparing for AGI from a National Defense Perspective

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Curt Jaimungal

Physics, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.6606 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Thomas Pike (NIU Dean) outlines national defense strategies to mitigate catastrophic AGI outcomes He outlines strategies for national defense research and policy to prepare for AGI.SPONSORS:- Patreon: early access to ad‑free audio episodes! https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE- PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE- TOE Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerchRESOURCES:- Please consider signing up for TOEmail at: https://www.curtjaimungal.org- Get my 'Top 10 TOEs' PDF + Weekly Personal Updates: https://www.curtjaimungal.org- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theoriesofeverythingpod- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theoriesofeverything_- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs- iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802- Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal features long-form, technically detailed interviews with leading researchers in physics, mathematics, consciousness, and philosophy, exploring topics at the level of active research. For academics, graduate students, and anyone seeking depth beyond popular science. SPONSOR: I personally subscribe to The Economist. TOE listeners get 35% off the annual subscription. No other podcast has this! https://economist.com/TOE FOLLOW: Substack | Spotify | YouTube | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:30.1

As a democracy and crisis, how is this going to tip into the future?

0:33.9

So your signals have changed, the butterfly is kind of flapped its wings.

0:37.1

Will we tip into another strange attractor?

0:39.3

Because we could take a student and, you know, a 10-week class, take it from almost no

0:43.8

coding, you know, to building a facial recognition with a support vector machine.

0:47.5

Like, that's, that's amazing.

0:50.8

Thomas Pike is a faculty at National Intelligence University.

0:55.2

This talk was given at Mindfest, put on by the Center for the Future Mind, which is spearheaded by Professor of Philosophy, Susan Schneider.

1:02.5

It's a conference that's annually held, where they merge artificial intelligence and consciousness studies, and held at Florida Atlantic University.

1:09.8

The links to all of these will be in the

1:12.0

description. There's also a playlist here for Mind Fest. Again, that's that conference,

1:16.3

merging AI in consciousness. There are previous talks from people like Scott Aronson, David Chalmers,

1:21.1

Stuart Hammerov, Sarah Walker, Stephen Wolfram, and Ben Gortzel. My name's Kurtzai Mungal, and

1:26.1

today we have a special treat,

1:31.9

because usually theories of everything is a podcast. What's ordinarily done on this channel is I use my background in mathematical physics, and I analyze various theories of everything

1:36.4

from that perspective and analytical one, but as well as a philosophical one,

1:41.1

discerning, well, what's consciousness's relationship to fundamental reality,

1:44.9

what is reality, are the laws as they exist, even the laws, and should they be mathematical,

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