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November 8, 2023 70 mins

Sam and I talk about Hegel, LLM consciousness, and intellectual breadth.

Transcript

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Timestamps

(0:00:00) Intro

(0:00:38) Joseph Heath

(0:02:52) Iain Banks and defunctionalized culture

(0:05:46) Memetic cultures

(0:06:39) Misinterpreting Hegel

(0:08:05) Sam's Hegelian influence

(0:09:41) Libertarian dialectic

(0:13:39) Should EA become explicitly religious?

(0:20:53) Hegel and AI

(0:25:07) Wittgenstein and AI

(0:32:48) Can transformers generalize beyond their training set?

(0:35:16) Can we understand consciousness?

(0:40:20) Trading on AI innovation

(0:44:26) AI and leviathan

(0:51:30) Attracting talent to the public sector

(0:55:10) AI and the great founder theory

(0:58:58) AI lock-in effects

(1:00:54) Technological unemployment

(1:02:47) Intellectual breadth

(1:08:55) Sam Hammond production function

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Links

- Sam's Twitter

- Sam's Substack

- ⁠Joseph Heath, The Rebel Sell

- Joseph Heath on Iain Banks

- Sam on Hegel

- Sam on Ronald Coase

- Sam's thesis

- Sam on AI and leviathan

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