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
