Podcast Episodes

Complexity, Abstraction, & Replication

We discuss:

Process-oriented fields like economics, evolution, and epistemologyLevels of abstraction and explanation vs. interacting domains of though…

1 day, 7 hours ago

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AGI & The Blind Watchmaker

Godel, Escher, Bach & Hofstadter's focus on self-reference vs. David Deutschs focus on universalityComparing knowledge about what to do vs. what is t…

1 week, 2 days ago

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The Most Powerful Possible Mind

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

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The Knowledge-Based View

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

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Delphinus Sapiens: human brains in dolphin bodies

1. Dolphins. Transplant human brains into dolphin bodies. How long before they build printing presses? More generally, what matters more: our hands o…

1 year, 6 months ago

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AGI = Darwin + Turing + Darwin

What makes something an AGI? What requirements should it meet?

1. Darwin. It should be able to explore many possibilities, via variation and selection…

1 year, 6 months ago

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Progress & Knowledge

Season 1 Episode 2

In this episode, I discuss:

1. Progress. What makes progress possible? What makes it go faster? What makes it go further?
2. Four elements of knowledge…

1 year, 6 months ago

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Variation, Selection, Universality, & Attention

Season 1 Episode 1

Howdy! I'm Carlos, and I work on artificial general intelligence. In this episode, I discuss:

My main research question: What makes human minds so pow…

1 year, 7 months ago

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