Joscha Bach is a German artificial intelligence researcher and cognitive scientist who works on on cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, and multi-agent systems. We got connected over the hard problem of consciousness - namely, why do people seem to think it’s so hard? During our conversation we deal with the foundational questions of the technological future being built in Silicon Valley, the fever dream of machine intelligence, and try to understand why people seem to think that there’s even such a thing as the hard problem of consciousness in the first place.
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00:00:00 Go!
00:04:09 Career Advice
00:11:31 Beauty, Grace, & Hotness
00:13:48 Putting on Airs
00:22:32 Patreon Ask
00:22:33 Winning for the sake of winning
00:29:35 Transformative experiences
00:36:25 Speciation event, or crap again?
00:42:17 Who is Joscha Bach
00:52:39 Physics & Causality
01:00:52 Physics vs Biology
01:12:16 Life vs Cells
01:20:14 Biosynthetic AGI
01:28:15 Creativity & Novelty
01:38:52 Wetware & Neuromorphic computing
01:50:46 The Limits of Hardware
02:05:07 The value of Agency
02:15:47 Layers of Society
02:35:03 Chimp Empire
02:52:31 Collapse
03:05:13 The Hard Problem
03:43:28 Computer Imagination
04:02:52 How reasoning works
04:14:28 Reward Functions
04:20:01 Consciousness dreams
04:25:35 The heart of the disagreement
04:30:15 Consensus
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PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities.
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MUSIC:
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- Is There Really a Hard Problem of Consciousness - Joscha Bach, Artificial Intelligence Researcher ( Download)
- From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Consciousness | Joscha Bach | TEDxBeaconStreet ( Download)
- Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101 ( Download)
- Joscha Bach: Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and the Threat of AI Apocalypse ( Download)
- Artificial Intelligence Is the New Science of Human Consciousness | Joscha Bach | Big Think ( Download)
- Joscha Bach disagrees with Roger Penrose about consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips ( Download)
- What It Takes To Build Conscious Ai: Joscha Bach ( Download)
- We exist inside the story that the brain tells itself (Joscha Bach) | AI Podcast Clips ( Download)
- Your Future & Reality Will Change Forever: AI, God, Consciousness & Simulation Theory | Joscha Bach ( Download)
- Does AGI need a body (Joscha Bach) | AI Podcast Clips ( Download)
- Does Roger Penrose’s Theory of Consciousness Make Sense | Joscha Bach ( Download)
- Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans | Lex Fridman Podcast #392 ( Download)
- AI, consciousness, and ethics | Susan Schneider ( Download)
- How to Engineer Consciousness | Joscha Bach and Lex Fridman ( Download)
- The Threat of AI - Dr. Joscha Bach and Connor Leahy ( Download)
