American Alchemy | Jesse Michels | Episode 145

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I don't think we are at the  apex of 📍 human enlightenment.

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We've made a lot of progress, but there will be wild overturning of our current body of knowledge.

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The matrix is The hero's journey  and Plato's allegory of the cave.

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AI is neither artificial nor intelligent, it is frickin algorithms.

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We're not gonna figure out  AGI until we figure out our own consciousness.

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Everyone's worried about  the Terminator coming along.

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We have no working model of our  own consciousness.

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Are we gonna try to program it into a machine? We can't do it.

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I think biology and evolution is way  more sophisticated than we realized, far beyond some deep learning model.

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Why in the last 5% of our existence do we have  everything we have today and before that we were literally just hunter gatherers.

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Our current  understanding of the nature of reality is way off.

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Know that reality as you're living in it, is a  compressed version of something that is much wider