#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI
Lex Fridman Podcast29 Joulu 2023

#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

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

EPISODE LINKS:
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

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