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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:57) – The Fermi paradox
(14:59) – Systems of government
(17:36) – Life, intelligence, and consciousness
(24:49) – GPT language model
(27:02) – Engineering consciousness
(31:19) – Is there an algorithm for intelligence?
(38:41) – Neural networks and deep learning
(51:32) – Human reward functions
(56:26) – Love is part of the human condition
(58:53) – Expanding our circle of empathy
(1:02:58) – Psychedelics and meditation
(1:14:25) – Ilya Sutskever
(1:21:42) – How does GPT work?
(1:31:35) – AI safety
(1:38:21) – OpenAI Codex
(1:51:54) – Robotics
(2:01:11) – Developing self driving cars and robots
(2:12:02) – What is the benchmark for intelligence?
(2:15:04) – Will we spend more time in virtual reality?
(2:17:18) – AI Friendships
(2:26:48) – Sleep
(2:29:22) – Generating good ideas
(2:35:47) – Advice for young people
(2:40:31) – Getting started with machine learning
(2:43:44) – What is beauty?
(2:47:35) – Death
(2:54:23) – Meaning of life
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