EPISODE · Nov 8, 2023 · 1H 10M
Sam Hammond
from Undertone · host Dan Schulz
Sam and I talk about Hegel, LLM consciousness, and intellectual breadth. Transcript -- 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 -- 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
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