Technology & Future

Discusses technological progress broadly and its implications for humanity's trajectory. Covers synthetic biology, space exploration, computation, emerging technologies, forecasting, and how science and innovation shape possible futures.

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Mar 30, 2023 · Technology & Future

Lennart Heim on the AI Triad: Compute, Data, and Algorithms

Lennart Heim joins the podcast to discuss how we can forecast AI progress by researching AI hardware.

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Mar 23, 2023 · Technology & Future

Liv Boeree on Poker, GPT-4, and the Future of AI

Liv Boeree joins the podcast to discuss poker, GPT-4, human-AI interaction, whether this is the most important century, and building a dataset of human wisdom.

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Mar 16, 2023 · Technology & Future

Liv Boeree on Moloch, Beauty Filters, Game Theory, Institutions, and AI

Liv Boeree joins the podcast to discuss Moloch, beauty filters, game theory, institutional change, and artificial intelligence.

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Mar 9, 2023 · Technology & Future

Tobias Baumann on Space Colonization and Cooperative Artificial Intelligence

Tobias Baumann joins the podcast to discuss suffering risks, space colonization, and cooperative artificial intelligence.

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Feb 23, 2023 · Technology & Future

Neel Nanda on Math, Tech Progress, Aging, Living up to Our Values, and Generative AI

Neel Nanda joins the podcast for a lightning round on mathematics, technological progress, aging, living up to our values, and generative AI.

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Feb 16, 2023 · Existential Risk

Neel Nanda on Avoiding an AI Catastrophe with Mechanistic Interpretability

Neel Nanda joins the podcast to talk about mechanistic interpretability and how it can make AI safer.

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Feb 9, 2023 · Technology & Future

Neel Nanda on What is Going on Inside Neural Networks

Neel Nanda joins the podcast to explain how we can understand neural networks using mechanistic interpretability.

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Feb 2, 2023 · Ethics & Philosophy

Connor Leahy on Aliens, Ethics, Economics, Memetics, and Education

Connor Leahy from Conjecture joins the podcast for a lightning round on a variety of topics ranging from aliens to education.

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Jan 26, 2023 · Existential Risk

Connor Leahy on AI Safety and Why the World is Fragile

Connor Leahy from Conjecture joins the podcast to discuss AI safety, the fragility of the world, slowing down AI development, regulating AI, and the optimal funding model for AI safety research.

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