Increments
Science, Philosophy, Epistemology, Mayhem
Displaying 9 items of Increments with the tag "ai".
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#94 - Is AI Just a Tool? (w/ Scott Aaronson)
November 6th, 2025 | 1 hr 24 mins
ai, ai doom, computation, induction, quantum mechanics
Is there any reason to believe that AI's capabilities are fundamentally limited? Scott Aaronson comes on to scare us straight.
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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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#77 (Bonus) - AI Doom Debate (w/ Liron Shapira)
November 19th, 2024 | 2 hrs 21 mins
ai, comedy, creativity, deep learning, existential risk, induction, knowledge, novelty, superintelligence
Part II of the great debate! Is AI about to kill everyone? Should you cash in on those vacation days now?
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#76 (Bonus) - Is P(doom) meaningful? Debating epistemology (w/ Liron Shapira)
November 8th, 2024 | 2 hrs 50 mins
ai, bayes, belief, epistemology, induction, popper, prediction
We were invited onto Liron Shapira's "Doom debates" to discuss Bayesian versus Popperian epistemology, AI doom, and superintelligence. Unsurprisingly, we got about one third of the way through the first subject ...
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#49 - AGI: Could The End Be Nigh? (With Rosie Campbell)
March 22nd, 2023 | 1 hr 24 mins
ai, creativity, existential risks, progress
The delightful Rosie Campbell joins us on the podcast to debate AI, AGI, superintelligence, and rogue computer viruses.
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#45 - Four Central Fallacies of AI Research (with Melanie Mitchell)
October 31st, 2022 | 53 mins 29 secs
ai, complexity, intelligence
We chat with Melanie Mitchell about our understanding of artificial intelligence, human intelligence, and whether it's reasonable to expect us to be able to build sophisticated human-like automated systems anytime soon.
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#9 - Facial Recognition Technology with Stephen Caines
August 6th, 2020 | 1 hr 22 mins
ai, clearview, creepy af, facial recognition, law
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#7 - Philosophy of Probability II: Existential Risks
July 7th, 2020 | 1 hr 37 mins
ai, bayesianism, existential risk, expected value
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