Increments
Science, Philosophy, Epistemology, Mayhem
Displaying all 3 Episode of Increments with the tag “agi”.
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#91 - The Uses and Abuses of Statistics (with Ben Recht)
September 4th, 2025 | 1 hr 16 mins
agi, artificial intelligence, rationality, statistics
What is statistics good for? Has it ever discovered anything? Where does the word "robot" come from? Ben Recht joins us to untangle these mysteries.
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#90 (Reaction) - Disbelieving AI 2027: Responding to "Why We're Not Ready For Superintelligence"
August 17th, 2025 | 1 hr 35 mins
agi, ai, doomerism, progress, superintelligence, technology, trends
The boys are hooked on reaction videos. This time: 80,000 hours' "Why we're not ready for superintelligence."
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#43 - Artificial General Intelligence and the AI Safety debate
August 28th, 2022 | 1 hr 7 mins
agi, ai safety, empiricism, existential risk
Is advanced AI going to kill everyone? How close are we to building AGI? Is current AI creative? Put aside your philosophy textbooks, because we have the answers.