#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI
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Guillaume Verdon (aka Beff Jezos on Twitter) is a physicist, quantum computing researcher, and founder of e/acc (effective accelerationism) movement. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/guillaume-verdon-transcript
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Guillaume Verdon Twitter: https://twitter.com/GillVerd
Beff Jezos Twitter: https://twitter.com/BasedBeffJezos
Extropic: https://extropic.ai/
E/acc Blog: https://effectiveaccelerationism.substack.com/
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00 ) – Introduction
(09:18 ) – Beff Jezos
(19:16 ) – Thermodynamics
(25:31 ) – Doxxing
(35:25 ) – Anonymous bots
(42:53 ) – Power
(45:24 ) – AI dangers
(48:56 ) – Building AGI
(57:09 ) – Merging with AI
(1:04:51 ) – p(doom)
(1:20:18 ) – Quantum machine learning
(1:33:36 ) – Quantum computer
(1:42:10 ) – Aliens
(1:46:59 ) – Quantum gravity
(1:52:20 ) – Kardashev scale
(1:54:12 ) – Effective accelerationism (e/acc)
(2:04:42 ) – Humor and memes
(2:07:48 ) – Jeff Bezos
(2:14:20 ) – Elon Musk
(2:20:50 ) – Extropic
(2:29:26 ) – Singularity and AGI
(2:33:24 ) – AI doomers
(2:34:49 ) – Effective altruism
(2:41:18 ) – Day in the life
(2:47:45 ) – Identity
(2:50:35 ) – Advice for young people
(2:52:37 ) – Mortality
(2:56:20 ) – Meaning of life
United States
I can't decide if this guy's schtick is all a big troll or what? The idea that there are basically two human futures, with and without AI, and the future with unfettered AI regulated by "capitalism" is the good one, made me laugh out loud. Guillaume seems very smart. Also, perhaps he doesn't understand people well and possibly, where he may be correct, not in the way he thinks. I keep hearing Chance in Being There, "In the spring, things grow..."
8:54
tf is a beff jesos?
Huh?