#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness

Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00)– Introduction
(07:15)– Life is hard
(09:38)– Consciousness
(16:24)– What is life?
(26:33)– Free will
(40:38)– Simulation
(42:49)– Base layer of reality
(58:24)– Boston Dynamics
(1:06:43)– Engineering consciousness
(1:17:12)– Suffering
(1:26:06)– Postmodernism
(1:30:25)– Psychedelics
(1:43:40)– GPT-3
(1:52:22)– GPT-4
(1:58:47)– OpenAI Codex
(2:01:02)– Humans vs AI: Who is more dangerous?
(2:17:47)– Hitler
(2:22:44)– Autonomous weapon systems
(2:30:11)– Mark Zuckerberg
(2:35:47)– Love
(2:50:00)– Michael Malice and anarchism
(3:06:57)– Love
(3:11:05)– Advice for young people
(3:15:42)– Meaning of life