AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
4min chapter
#130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is the World Computable?
Is it possible with the advent of artificial intelligence for the computer to look outside of itself to see, to understand its creator? I mean, is that a ridiculous connection? Well, I mean, we all know that humans have done an imperfect job of enforcing the abstraction boundaries of computers. If we ever tried to do an experiment involving the singularity of a black hole or something like that, then, you know, the universe would just generate an overflow error or something. Yeah, we would just crash the universe. Now, if we could actually discover some exploit of reality itself, then in some sense, we wouldn't have to philosophize about this, right? This would no longer be a
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode