#1: Greg Fodor - AI, knowledge acceleration, aliens, & VR

Greg Fodor is a software engineer who’s been involved in augmented and virtual reality for over a decade. He co-founded Altspace VR, a virtual events company acquired by Microsoft, worked on Mozilla Hubs, a browser-based VR community platform; built Jel, a virtual environment video game for working, and is currently working on a new extended reality hardware stealth startup. On his Twitter account, @gfodor, he tweets about AI, VR and AR, unidentified aerial phenomena, aliens, and the philosophy of knowledge. CHAPTERS: (00:00) - Intro (00:46) - Superconductors (03:51) - The Turing test (16:21) - AI risks, alignment, and knowledge acceleration (33:22) - What is alignment? (46:50) - AI doom (58:01) - e/acc (1:16:28) - UAPs and aliens (1:32:05) - Risks from aliens (1:43:11) - Alien zoo hypothesis (1:50:50) - Virtual reality (2:05:37) - The future of VR (2:17:38) - Greg’s Intellectual Journey (2:26:15) - Outro