#2: Carlos de la Guardia - AGI, Deutsch, Popper, knowledge, and progress

Carlos de la Guardia is an independent AGI researcher inspired by the work of Karl Popper, David Deutsch, and Richard Dawkins. In his research, he seeks answers to some of humanity’s biggest questions: how humans create knowledge, how AIs can one day do the same, and how we can use knowledge to figure out how to speed up our minds and even end death. Carlos is currently working on a book about AGI, which will be published on his Substack, Making Minds and Making Progress.

PODCAST LINKS:

Video Transcript: https://www.theojaffee.com/p/2-carlos-de-la-guardia

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1IJRtB8FP4Cnq8lWuuCdvW?si=eba62a72e6234efb

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/theo-jaffee-podcast/id1699912677

RSS: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/989123/s/75569/private/129f6344-c459-4581-a9da-dc331677c2f6.rss

Playlist of all episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVN8-zhbMh9YnOGVRT9m0xzqTNGD_sujj

SOCIALS:

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/theojaffee

My Substack: https://www.theojaffee.com

Carlos’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/dela3499

Carlos's Substack: https://carlosd.substack.com/

Carlos's Website: https://carlosd.org/

CHAPTERS:

Intro (0:00)

Carlos’ Research (0:55)

Economics and Computation (19:46)

Bayesianism (27:54)

AI Doom and Optimism (34:21)

Will More Compute Produce AGI? (46:04)

AI Alignment and Interpretability (54:11)

Mind Uploading (1:05:44)

Carlos’ 6 Questions on AGI (1:12:47)

1. What are the limits of biological evolution? (1:13:06)

2. What makes explanatory knowledge special? (1:18:07)

3. How can Popperian epistemology improve AI? (1:19:54)

4. What are the different kinds of idea conflicts? (1:23:58)

5. Why is the brain a network of neurons? (1:25:47)

6. How do neurons make consciousness? (1:27:26)

The Optimistic AI Future (1:34:50)