Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #212

Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Joscha’s Website: http://bach.ai

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OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
0:33 – Life is hard
2:56 – Consciousness
9:42 – What is life?
19:51 – Free will
33:56 – Simulation
36:06 – Base layer of reality
51:42 – Boston Dynamics
1:00:01 – Engineering consciousness
1:10:30 – Suffering
1:19:24 – Postmodernism
1:23:43 – Psychedelics
1:36:57 – GPT-3
1:45:40 – GPT-4
1:52:05 – OpenAI Codex
1:54:20 – Humans vs AI: Who is more dangerous?
2:11:04 – Hitler
2:16:01 – Autonomous weapon systems
2:23:29 – Mark Zuckerberg
2:29:04 – Love
2:43:18 – Michael Malice and anarchism
3:00:15 – Love
3:04:23 – Advice for young people
3:09:00 – Meaning of life

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