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The time has come for Vaden to defend his faith in the face of cold, hard scientific rationality. Will AI take over the world, automating away everything that makes humans distinct? Or can Vaden defend the church of just-ism, the radical belief that AI is simply "just a tool." Scott Aaronson, professor of computer science at UT Austin, goes to head to head against the zealotry. Check out Scott's website (https://www.scottaaronson.com/) and his blog, Shtetl Optimized (https://scottaaronson.blog/). We discuss Scott view's on education. Should we radically reform K-12? Is ChatGPT changing Scott's approach to teaching The religion of "justa-ism" Is AI just a tool? Is there any principle which lets us say that AI won't be as general as humans? Aaronson's thesis of Artificial Intelligence Computational universality vs explanatory universality The many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics Socials Follow us on Twitter at @IncrementsPod, @BennyChugg, @VadenMasrani Come join our discord server! DM us on twitter or send us an email to get a supersecret link Become a patreon subscriber here (https://www.patreon.com/Increments). Or give us one-time cash donations to help cover our lack of cash donations here (https://ko-fi.com/increments). Click dem like buttons on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_4wZzQyoW4s4ZuE4FY9DQQ) Have you been converted? Tell us at incrementspodcast@gmail.com Special Guest: Scott Aaronson.
CME credits: 0.50 Valid until: 09-07-2026 Claim your CME credit at https://reachmd.com/programs/cme/optimizing-vns-parameters-keys-to-therapeutic-success/35797/ This series of bite-sized episodes contains important information on using vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) and treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Drs. Raman Sankar and Scott Aaronson discuss best practices for identifying and treating patients as well as programming strategies for VNS.
CME credits: 0.50 Valid until: 09-07-2026 Claim your CME credit at https://reachmd.com/programs/cme/epilepsy-beyond-seizure-impact/35794/ This series of bite-sized episodes contains important information on using vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) and treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Drs. Raman Sankar and Scott Aaronson discuss best practices for identifying and treating patients as well as programming strategies for VNS.
CME credits: 0.50 Valid until: 09-07-2026 Claim your CME credit at https://reachmd.com/programs/cme/vns-beyond-seizure-control/35795/ This series of bite-sized episodes contains important information on using vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) and treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Drs. Raman Sankar and Scott Aaronson discuss best practices for identifying and treating patients as well as programming strategies for VNS.
CME credits: 0.50 Valid until: 09-07-2026 Claim your CME credit at https://reachmd.com/programs/cme/qol-matters-brain-stem-stimulation-in-patients-with-unipolar-depression/35796/ This series of bite-sized episodes contains important information on using vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) and treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Drs. Raman Sankar and Scott Aaronson discuss best practices for identifying and treating patients as well as programming strategies for VNS.
CME credits: 0.50 Valid until: 09-07-2026 Claim your CME credit at https://reachmd.com/programs/cme/optimizing-vns-parameters-keys-to-therapeutic-success/35797/ This series of bite-sized episodes contains important information on using vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) and treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Drs. Raman Sankar and Scott Aaronson discuss best practices for identifying and treating patients as well as programming strategies for VNS.
CME credits: 0.50 Valid until: 09-07-2026 Claim your CME credit at https://reachmd.com/programs/cme/differentiating-neuromodulation-therapies-vns-dbs-ect-tms/35793/ This series of bite-sized episodes contains important information on using vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) and treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Drs. Raman Sankar and Scott Aaronson discuss best practices for identifying and treating patients as well as programming strategies for VNS.
CME credits: 0.50 Valid until: 09-07-2026 Claim your CME credit at https://reachmd.com/programs/cme/differentiating-neuromodulation-therapies-vns-dbs-ect-tms/35793/ This series of bite-sized episodes contains important information on using vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) and treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Drs. Raman Sankar and Scott Aaronson discuss best practices for identifying and treating patients as well as programming strategies for VNS.
CME credits: 0.50 Valid until: 09-07-2026 Claim your CME credit at https://reachmd.com/programs/cme/epilepsy-beyond-seizure-impact/35794/ This series of bite-sized episodes contains important information on using vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) and treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Drs. Raman Sankar and Scott Aaronson discuss best practices for identifying and treating patients as well as programming strategies for VNS.
CME credits: 0.50 Valid until: 09-07-2026 Claim your CME credit at https://reachmd.com/programs/cme/vns-beyond-seizure-control/35795/ This series of bite-sized episodes contains important information on using vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) and treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Drs. Raman Sankar and Scott Aaronson discuss best practices for identifying and treating patients as well as programming strategies for VNS.
CME credits: 0.50 Valid until: 09-07-2026 Claim your CME credit at https://reachmd.com/programs/cme/qol-matters-brain-stem-stimulation-in-patients-with-unipolar-depression/35796/ This series of bite-sized episodes contains important information on using vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) and treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Drs. Raman Sankar and Scott Aaronson discuss best practices for identifying and treating patients as well as programming strategies for VNS.
What if gravity is not fundamental but emerges from quantum entanglement? In this episode, physicist Ted Jacobson reveals how Einstein's equations can be derived from thermodynamic principles of the quantum vacuum, reshaping our understanding of space, time, and gravity itself. As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com Listen on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:11 The Journey into Physics 04:26 Spirituality and Physics 06:29 Connecting Gravity and Thermodynamics 09:22 The Concept of Rindler Horizons 13:12 The Nature of Quantum Vacuum 20:53 The Duality of Quantum Fields 32:59 Understanding the Equation of State 35:05 Exploring Local Rindler Horizons 47:15 Holographic Duality and Space-Time Emergence 58:19 The Metric and Quantum Fields 59:58 Extensions and Comparisons in Gravity 1:26:26 The Nature of Black Hole Physics 1:31:04 Comparing Theories Links Mentioned:: • Ted's published papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QyHAXo8AAAAJ&hl=en • Claudia de Rham on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve_Mpd6dGv8 • Neil Turok on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZCa1pVE20 • Bisognano–Wichmann theorem: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Bisognano-Wichmann+theorem • Scott Aaronson and Jacob Barandes on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rbC3XZr9-c • Stephen Wolfram on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YRlQQw0d-4 • Ruth Kastner on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BsHh3_vCMQ • Jacob Barandes on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaS1usLeXQM • Leonard Susskind on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p_Hlm6aCok • Ted's talk on black holes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYt2Rm_dXf4 • Ted Jacobson: Diffeomorphism invariance and the black hole information paradox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6kdHge-NNY • Bose–Einstein condensate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose–Einstein_condensate • Holographic Thought Experiments (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/0808.2845 • Peter Woit and Joseph Conlon on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAaXk_WoQqQ • Chiara Marletto on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uey_mUy1vN0 • Entanglement Equilibrium and the Einstein Equation (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.04753 • Ivette Fuentes on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUj2TcZSlZc • Unitarity and Holography in Gravitational Physics (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/0808.2842 • The dominant model of the universe is cracking (Economist article): https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/06/19/the-dominant-model-of-the-universe-is-creaking • Suvrat Raju's published papers: https://www.suvratraju.net/publications • Mark Van Raamsdonk's published papers: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=k8LsA4YAAAAJ&hl=en • Ryu–Takayanagi conjecture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryu–Takayanagi_conjecture Support TOE on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs #science Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What if quantum mechanics is not fundamental? What if time itself is an illusion? In this new episode, physicist Julian Barbour returns to share his most radical ideas yet. He proposes that the universe is built purely from ratios, that time is not fundamental, and that quantum mechanics might be replaced entirely without the need for wave functions or Planck's constant. This may be the simplest vision of reality ever proposed. As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com Listen on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join Videos Mentioned: Julian's previous appearance on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bprxrGaf0Os Neil Turok on TOE (Big Bang): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUp9x44N3uE Neil Turok on TOE (Black Holes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZCa1pVE20 Debunking “All Possible Paths”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcY3ZtgYis0 John Vervaeke on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVj1KYGyesI Jacob Barandes & Scott Aaronson on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rbC3XZr9-c The Dark History of Anti-Gravity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBA3RUxkZdc Peter Woit on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTSeqsCgxj8 Books Mentioned: The Monadology – G.W. Leibniz: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1546527664 The Janus Point – Julian Barbour: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0465095461 Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat – Carnot: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1514873974 Lucretius: On the Nature of Things: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0393341364 Heisenberg and the Interpretation of QM: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1107403510 Quantum Mechanics for Cosmologists: https://books.google.ca/books?id=qou0iiLPjyoC&pg=PA99 Faraday, Maxwell, and the EM Field: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1616149426 The Feeling of Life Itself – Christof Koch: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B08BTCX4BM Articles Mentioned: Time's Arrow and Simultaneity (Barbour): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.14179 On the Moving Force of Heat (Clausius): https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/2559_Therm_Stat_Mech/docs/Clausius%20Moving%20Force%20heat%201851.pdf On the Motions and Collisions of Elastic Spheres (Maxwell): http://www.alternativaverde.it/stel/documenti/Maxwell/1860/Maxwell%20%281860%29%20-%20Illustrations%20of%20the%20dynamical%20theory%20of%20gases.pdf Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell–Boltzmann_distribution Identification of a Gravitational Arrow of Time: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.0917 The Nature of Time: https://arxiv.org/pdf/0903.3489 The Solution to the Problem of Time in Shape Dynamics: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.6264 CPT-Symmetric Universe: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.08928 Mach's Principle and Dynamical Theories (JSTOR): https://www.jstor.org/stable/2397395 Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:35 Consciousness and the Nature of Reality 3:23 The Nature of Time and Change 7:01 The Role of Variety in Existence 9:23 Understanding Entropy and Temperature 36:10 Revisiting the Second Law of Thermodynamics 41:33 The Illusion of Entropy in the Universe 46:11 Rethinking the Past Hypothesis 55:03 Complexity, Order, and Newton's Influence 1:02:33 Evidence Beyond Quantum Mechanics 1:16:04 Age and Structure of the Universe 1:18:53 Open Universe and Ratios 1:20:15 Fundamental Particles and Ratios 1:24:20 Emergence of Structure in Age 1:27:11 Shapes and Their Explanations 1:32:54 Life and Variety in the Universe 1:44:27 Consciousness and Perception of Structure 1:57:22 Geometry, Experience, and Forces 2:09:27 The Role of Consciousness in Shape Dynamics Support TOE on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs #science Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode, we sit down with Scott Aaronson, founder and CEO of Demeter Land Development, to explore his unexpected path from criminal defense attorney to renewable energy land origination expert.Scott recounts how his real estate ventures led him to community solar development, shedding light on the evolving challenges of securing land for distributed generation (DG) projects. He discusses the industry's transformation from old-school, door-knocking tactics to a highly strategic, data-driven approach.We cover:How his unique legal background can be applied to land originationThe biggest challenges in permitting, interconnection, and competitionHow personalized landowner outreach makes a differenceThe future of DG renewables and what trends to watchScott emphasizes the importance of local relationships, policy awareness, and strategic first-mover advantage in emerging markets. He also shares how Demeter's partnership with Paces has helped streamline operations and accelerate growth.If you're involved in solar development, land acquisition, or renewable energy policy, this episode is packed with valuable insights!Connect with Scott here!Paces helps developers find and evaluate the sites most suitable for renewable development. Interested in a call with James, CEO @ Paces?
Join Curt Jaimungal as he welcomes Harvard physicist Jacob Barandes, who claims quantum mechanics can be reformulated without wave functions, alongside computer scientist Scott Aaronson. Barandes' “indivisible” approach challenges the standard Schrödinger model, and Aaronson offers a healthy dose of skepticism in today's theolocution. Are we on the cusp of a radical rewrite of reality—or just rebranding the same quantum puzzles? As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com Listen on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics 05:40 The Power of Quantum Computing 36:17 The Many Worlds Debate 1:09:05 Evaluating Jacob's Theory 1:13:49 Criteria for Theoretical Frameworks 1:17:15 Bohmian Mechanics and Stochastic Dynamics 1:18:51 Generalizing Quantum Theory 1:22:32 The Role of Unobservables 1:31:08 The Problem of Trajectories 1:39:39 Exploring Alternative Theories 1:50:29 The Stone Soup Analogy 1:56:20 The Limits of Quantum Mechanics 2:01:57 The Nature of Laws in Physics 2:14:57 The Many Worlds Interpretation 2:22:40 The Search for New Connections Links Mentioned: - Quantum theory, the Church–Turing principle and the universal quantum computer (article): https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall04/cos576/papers/deutsch85.pdf - The Emergent Multiverse (book): https://amzn.to/3QJleSu Jacob Barandes on TOE (Part 1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oWip00iXbo&t=1s&ab_channel=CurtJaimungal - Scott Aaronson on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZpGCQoL2Rk - Quantum Theory From Five Reasonable Axioms (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0101012 - Quantum stochastic processes and quantum non-Markovian phenomena (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.01894 - Jacob's “Wigner's Friend” flowchart: https://shared.jacobbarandes.com/images/wigners-friend-flow-chart-2025 - Is Quantum Mechanics An Island In Theory Space? (paper): https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/island.pdf - Aspects of Objectivity in Quantum Mechanics (paper): https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/223/1/Objectivity.pdf - Quantum Computing Since Democritus (book): https://amzn.to/4bqVeoD - The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1306.0159 - Quantum mechanics and reality (article): https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/23/9/30/427387/Quantum-mechanics-and-realityCould-the-solution-to - Stone Soup (book): https://amzn.to/4kgPamN - TOE's String Theory Iceberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4PdPnQuwjY - TOE's Mindfest playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ7ikzmc6zlOPw7Hqkc6-MXEMBy0fnZcb Support TOE on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs #science #theoreticalphysics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe Professor Geoffrey Hinton, a prominent figure in AI and 2024 Nobel Prize recipient, discusses the urgent risks posed by rapid AI advancements in today's episode of Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal. Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com Listen on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE Timestamps: 00:00 The Existential Threat of AI 01:25 The Speed of AI Development 7:11 The Nature of Subjective Experience 14:18 Consciousness vs Self-Consciousness 23:36 The Misunderstanding of Mental States 29:19 The Chinese Room Argument 30:47 The Rise of AI in China 37:18 The Future of AI Development 40:00 The Societal Impact of AI 47:02 Understanding and Intelligence 1:00:47 Predictions on Subjective Experience 1:05:45 The Future Landscape of AI 1:10:14 Reflections on Recognition and Impact Geoffrey Hinton Links: • Geoffrey Hinton's publications: https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/papers.html#1983-1976 • The Economist's several mentions of Geoffrey Hinton: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/10/08/ai-researchers-receive-the-nobel-prize-for-physics • https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/01/02/would-an-artificial-intelligence-bubble-be-so-bad • https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/10/10/ai-wins-big-at-the-nobels • https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/08/14/ai-scientists-are-producing-new-theories-of-how-the-brain-learns • Scott Aaronson on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZpGCQoL2Rk&ab_channel=CurtJaimungal • Roger Penrose on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGm505TFMbU&list=PLZ7ikzmc6zlN6E8KrxcYCWQIHg2tfkqvR&index=19 • The Emperor's New Mind (book): https://www.amazon.com/Emperors-New-Mind-Concerning-Computers/dp/0192861980 • Daniel Dennett on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH553zzjQlI&list=PLZ7ikzmc6zlN6E8KrxcYCWQIHg2tfkqvR&index=78 • Noam Chomsky on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQuiso493ro&t=1353s&ab_channel=CurtJaimungal • Ray Kurzweil's books: https://www.thekurzweillibrary.com/ Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join Support TOE on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs #science #ai #artificialintelligence #physics #consciousness #computerscience Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Quantum computing is advancing rapidly, raising significant questions for cryptography and blockchain. In this episode, Scott Aaronson, quantum computing expert, and Justin Drake, cryptography researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, join us to explore the impact of quantum advancements on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the future of crypto security. Are your coins safe? How soon do we need post-quantum cryptography? Tune in as we navigate this complex, fascinating frontier. ------
Our final episode of the year is also my favorite annual tradition: conversations with scientists about the most important and, often, just plain mind-blowing breakthroughs of the previous 12 months. Today we're talking about "organ clocks" (we'll explain) and other key biotech advances of 2024 with Eric Topol, an American cardiologist and author who is also the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute. But first, Derek attempts a 'Plain English'-y summary of the most confusing thing he's ever covered—QUANTUM COMPUTING—with a major assist from theoretical computer scientist Scott Aaronson from the University of Texas at Austin. If you have questions, observations, or ideas for future episodes, email us at PlainEnglish@Spotify.com. Host: Derek Thompson Guests: Scott Aaronson and Eric Topol Producer: Devon Baroldi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How fast is the AI race really going? What is the current state of Quantum Computing? What actually *is* the P vs NP problem? - former OpenAI researcher and theoretical computer scientist Scott Aaronson joins Liv and Igor to discuss everything quantum, AI and consciousness. We hear about his experience working on OpenAI's "superalignment team", whether quantum computers might break Bitcoin, the state of University Admissions, and even a proposal for a new religion! Strap in for a fascinating conversation that bridges deep theory with pressing real-world concerns about our technological future. Chapters: 1:30 - Working at OpenAI 4:23 - His Approaches to AI Alignment 6:23 - Watermarking & Detection of AI content 19:15 - P vs. NP 27:11 - The Current State of AI Safety 37:38 - Bad "Just-a-ism" Arguments around LLMs 48:25 - What Sets Human Creativity Apart from AI 55:30 - A Religion for AGI? 1:00:49 - More Moral Philosophy 1:05:24 - The AI Arms Race 1:11:08 - The Government Intervention Dilemma 1:23:28 - The Current State of Quantum Computing 1:36:25 - Will QC destroy Cryptography? 1:48:55 - Politics on College Campuses 2:03:11 - Scott's Childhood & Relationship with Competition 2:23:25 - Rapid-fire Predictions Links: ♾️ Scott's Blog: https://scottaaronson.blog/ ♾️ Scott's Book: https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computing-since-Democritus-Aaronson/dp/0521199565 ♾️ QIC at UTA: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~qic/ Credits Credits: ♾️ Hosted by Liv Boeree and Igor Kurganov ♾️ Produced by Liv Boeree ♾️ Post-Production by Ryan Kessler The Win-Win Podcast: Poker champion Liv Boeree takes to the interview chair to tease apart the complexities of one of the most fundamental parts of human nature: competition. Liv is joined by top philosophers, gamers, artists, technologists, CEOs, scientists, athletes and more to understand how competition manifests in their world, and how to change seemingly win-lose games into Win-Wins. #WinWinPodcast #QuantumComputing #AISafety #LLM
In today's episode, Jacob, a physicist specializing in quantum mechanics, explores groundbreaking ideas on measurement, the role of probabilistic laws, and the foundational principles of quantum theory. With a focus on interdisciplinary approaches, Jacob offers unique insights into the nature of particles, fields, and the evolution of quantum mechanics. New Substack! Follow my personal writings and EARLY ACCESS episodes here: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com SPONSOR (THE ECONOMIST): As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe LINKS MENTIONED: - Wigner's paper ‘Remarks on the Mind-Body Question': https://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/scientists/wigner/Wigner_Remarks.pdf - Jacob's lecture on Hilbert Spaces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmaSAG4J6nw&ab_channel=OxfordPhilosophyofPhysics - John von Neumann's book on ‘Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics': https://amzn.to/48OkeVj - The 1905 Papers (Albert Einstein): https://guides.loc.gov/einstein-annus-mirabilis/1905-papers - Dividing Quantum Channels (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/math-ph/0611057 - Sean Carroll on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AoRxtYZrZo - Scott Aaronson and Leonard Susskind's paper on ‘Quantum Necromancy': https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.07450 - Scott Aaronson on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZpGCQoL2Rk - Leonard Susskind on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p_Hlm6aCok - Ekkolapto's website: https://www.ekkolapto.org/ TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Introduction 01:26 - Jacob's Background 07:32 - Pursuing Theoretical Physics 10:28 - Is Consciousness Linked to Quantum Mechanics? 16:07 - Why the Wave Function Might Not Be Real 20:12 - The Schrödinger Equation Explained 23:04 - Higher Dimensions in Quantum Physics 30:11 - Heisenberg's Matrix Mechanics 35:08 - Schrödinger's Wave Function and Its Implications 39:57 - Dirac and von Neumann's Quantum Axioms 45:09 - The Problem with Hilbert Spaces 50:02 - Wigner's Friend Paradox 55:06 - Challenges in Defining Measurement in Quantum Mechanics 01:00:17 - Trying to Simplify Quantum for Students 01:03:35 - Bridging Quantum Mechanics with Stochastic Processes 01:05:05 - Discovering Indivisible Stochastic Processes 01:12:03 - Interference and Coherence Explained 01:16:06 - Redefining Measurement and Decoherence 01:18:01 - The Future of Quantum Theory 1:24:09 - Foundationalism and Quantum Theory 1:25:04 - Why Use Indivisible Stochastic Laws? 1:26:10 - The Quantum-Classical Transition 1:27:30 - Classical vs Quantum Probabilities 1:28:36 - Hilbert Space and the Convenience of Amplitudes 1:30:01 - No Special Role for Observers 1:33:40 - Emergence of the Wave Function 1:38:27 - Physicists' Reluctance to Change Foundations 1:43:04 - Resolving Quantum Mechanics' Inconsistencies 1:50:46 - Practical Applications of Indivisible Stochastic Processes 1:57:53 - Understanding Particles in the Indivisible Stochastic Model 2:00:48 - Is There a Fundamental Ontology? 2:07:02 - Advice for Students Entering Physics 2:09:32 - Encouragement for Interdisciplinary Research 2:12:22 - Outro TOE'S TOP LINKS: - Support TOE on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal (early access to ad-free audio episodes!) - Listen to TOE on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e - Become a YouTube Member Here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join - Join TOE's Newsletter 'TOEmail' at https://www.curtjaimungal.org Other Links: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt - Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802 - Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything #science #sciencepodcast #physics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
My guest today is Scott Aaronson, a theoretical computer scientist, OG blogger, and quantum computing maestro. Scott has so many achievements and credentials that listing them here would take longer than recording the episode. Here's a select few: Self-taught programmer at age 11, Cornell computer science student at 15, PhD recipient by 22! Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin. Director of UT Austin's Quantum Information Center. Former visiting researcher on OpenAI's alignment team (2022-2024). Awarded the ACM prize in computing in 2020 and the Tomassoni-Chisesi Prize in Physics (under 40 category) in 2018. … you get the point. Scott and I dig into the misunderstood world of quantum computing — the hopes, the hindrances, and the hucksters — to unpack what a quantum-empowered future could really look like. We also discuss what makes humans special in the age of AI, the stubbornly persistent errors of the seat-to-keyboard interface, and MUCH more. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did. For the full transcript, some highlights from Scott's blog, and bucketloads of other goodies designed to make you go, “Hmm, that's interesting!” check out our Substack. Important Links: Shtetl-Optimized (Scott's blog) My Reading Burden On blankfaces Show Notes: So much reading. So little time. The problem of human specialness in the age of AI It's always the same quantum weirdness Why it's easy to be a quantum huckster Quantum progress, quantum hopes, and quantum limits Encryption in a quantum empowered world Wielding the hammer of interference Scientific discovery in a quantum empowered world Bureaucracy and blank faces Scott as Emperor of the World MORE! Books Mentioned: The Fifth Science; by ****Exurb1a The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; by Douglas Adams
Land use is always on the mind of those who depend on the land for food, fiber and a way of life. Renewable energy touts being able to generate power again and again. Wind swept the nation and now solar is taking up real estate and stirring up debate. Scott Aaronson specializes in land acquisition and leasing for new solar projects as the CEO of the Demeter Land Development Company. We'll explore how this renewable energy source is reshaping the countryside and what it means for farmers, local communities, and our energy future.
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Proveably Safe Self Driving Cars, published by Davidmanheim on September 15, 2024 on LessWrong. I've seen a fair amount of skepticism about the "Provably Safe AI" paradigm, but I think detractors give it too little credit. I suspect this is largely because of idea inoculation - people have heard an undeveloped or weak man version of the idea, for example, that we can use formal methods to state our goals and prove that an AI will do that, and have already dismissed it. (Not to pick on him at all, but see my question for Scott Aaronson here.) I will not argue that Guaranteed Safe AI solves AI safety generally, or that it could do so - I will leave that to others. Instead, I want to provide a concrete example of a near-term application, to respond to critics who say that proveability isn't useful because it can't be feasibly used in real world cases when it involves the physical world, and when it is embedded within messy human systems. I am making far narrower claims than the general ones which have been debated, but at the very least I think it is useful to establish whether this is actually a point of disagreement. And finally, I will admit that the problem I'm describing would be adding proveability to a largely solved problem, but it provides a concrete example for where the approach is viable. A path to provably safe autonomous vehicles To start, even critics agree that formal verification is possible, and is already used in practice in certain places. And given (formally specified) threat models in different narrow domains, there are ways to do threat and risk modeling and get different types of guarantees. For example, we already have proveably verifiable code for things like microkernels, and that means we can prove that buffer overflows, arithmetic exceptions, and deadlocks are impossible, and have hard guarantees for worst case execution time. This is a basis for further applications - we want to start at the bottom and build on provably secure systems, and get additional guarantees beyond that point. If we plan to make autonomous cars that are provably safe, we would build starting from that type of kernel, and then we "only" have all of the other safety issues to address. Secondly, everyone seems to agree that provable safety in physical systems requires a model of the world, and given the limits of physics, the limits of our models, and so on, any such approach can only provide approximate guarantees, and proofs would be conditional on those models. For example, we aren't going to formally verify that Newtonian physics is correct, we're instead formally verifying that if Newtonian physics is correct, the car will not crash in some situation. Proven Input Reliability Given that, can we guarantee that a car has some low probability of crashing? Again, we need to build from the bottom up. We can show that sensors have some specific failure rate, and use that to show a low probability of not identifying other cars, or humans - not in the direct formal verification sense, but instead with the types of guarantees typically used for hardware, with known failure rates, built in error detection, and redundancy. I'm not going to talk about how to do that class of risk analysis, but (modulus adversarial attacks, which I'll mention later,) estimating engineering reliability is a solved problem - if we don't have other problems to deal with. But we do, because cars are complex and interact with the wider world - so the trick will be integrating those risk analysis guarantees that we can prove into larger systems, and finding ways to build broader guarantees on top of them. But for the engineering reliability, we don't only have engineering proof. Work like DARPA's VerifAI is "applying formal methods to perception and ML components." Building guarantees about perceptio...
his week, EEI's Electric Perspectives Podcast and The Current are partnering for an episode to discuss the impacts of Hurricane Beryl and the tremendous restoration efforts that are underway. On this episode, you'll hear from StormGeo Meteorologist Justin Petrutsas — who is based in the Houston area— and Scott Aaronson, EEI Senior Vice President of Security and Preparedness, about the intensity of this hurricane as well the complex work that is underway to safely restore power to impacted customers.
This week, EEI's Electric Perspectives Podcast and The Current are partnering for an episode to discuss the impacts of Hurricane Beryl and the tremendous restoration efforts that are underway. On this episode, you'll hear from StormGeo Meteorologist Justin Petrutsas — who is based in the Houston area— and Scott Aaronson, EEI Senior Vice President of Security and Preparedness, about the intensity of this hurricane as well the complex work that is underway to safely restore power to impacted customers.
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The consistent guessing problem is easier than the halting problem, published by Jessica Taylor on May 20, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum. The halting problem is the problem of taking as input a Turing machine M, returning true if it halts, false if it doesn't halt. This is known to be uncomputable. The consistent guessing problem (named by Scott Aaronson) is the problem of taking as input a Turing machine M (which either returns a Boolean or never halts), and returning true or false; if M ever returns true, the oracle's answer must be true, and likewise for false. This is also known to be uncomputable. Scott Aaronson inquires as to whether the consistent guessing problem is strictly easier than the halting problem. This would mean there is no Turing machine that, when given access to a consistent guessing oracle, solves the halting problem, no matter which consistent guessing oracle (of which there are many) it has access too. As prior work, Andrew Drucker has written a paper describing a proof of this, although I find the proof hard to understand and have not checked it independently. In this post, I will prove this fact in a way that I at least find easier to understand. (Note that the other direction, that a Turing machine with access to a halting oracle can be a consistent guessing oracle, is trivial.) First I will show that a Turing machine with access to a halting oracle cannot in general determine whether another machine with access to a halting oracle will halt. Suppose M(O, N) is a Turing machine that returns true if N(O) halts, false otherwise, when O is a halting oracle. Let T(O) be a machine that runs M(O, T), halting if it returns false, running forever if it returns true. Now M(O, T) must be its own negation, a contradiction. In particular, this implies that the problem of deciding whether a Turing machine with access to a halting oracle halts cannot be a Σ01 statement in the arithmetic hierarchy, since these statements can be decided by a machine with access to a halting oracle. Now consider the problem of deciding whether a Turing machine with access to a consistent guessing oracle halts for all possible consistent guessing oracles. If this is a Σ01 statement, then consistent guessing oracles must be strictly weaker than halting oracles. Since, if there were a reliable way to derive a halting oracle from a consistent guessing oracle, then any machine with access to a halting oracle can be translated to one making use of a consistent guessing oracle, that halts for all consistent guessing oracles if and only if the original halts when given access to a halting oracle. That would make the problem of deciding whether a Turing machine with access to a halting oracle halts a Σ01 statement, which we have shown to be impossible. What remains to be shown is that the problem of deciding whether a Turing machine with access to a consistent guessing oracle halts for all consistent guessing oracles, is a Σ01 statement. To do this, I will construct a recursively enumerable propositional theory T that depends on the Turing machine. Let M be a Turing machine that takes an oracle as input (where an oracle maps encodings of Turing machines to Booleans). Add to the T the following propositional variables: ON for each Turing machine encoding N, representing the oracle's answer about this machine. H, representing that M(O) halts. Rs for each possible state s of the Turing machine, where the state includes the head state and the state of the tape, representing that s is reached by the machine's execution. Clearly, these variables are recursively enumerable and can be computably mapped to the natural numbers. We introduce the following axiom schemas: (a) For any machine N that halts and returns true, ON. (b) For any machine N that halts and returns false, ON. (c) For any ...
Metanoia Lab | Liderança, inovação e transformação digital, por Andrea Iorio
Neste episódio da quarta temporada do Metanoia Lab, patrocinado pela Oi Soluções, o Andrea (andreaiorio.com) analisa uma frase do Scott Aaronson, professor de Computação Quantica na University of Texas Austin e hoje colaborador da OpenAi, que fala sobre a "Game Over theory", e introduz o elemento da subjetividade na questão de se a IA já super a o ser humano em todas as suas tarefas, ou se apenas naquelas em que a avaliação do resultado é objetiva.
Read the full transcript here. What exactly is quantum computing? How much should we worry about the possibility that quantum computing will break existing cryptography tools? When will a quantum computer with enough horsepower to crack RSA likely appear? On what kinds of tasks will quantum computers likely perform better than classical computers? How legitimate are companies that are currently selling quantum computing solutions? How can scientists help to fight misinformation and misunderstandings about quantum computing? To what extent should the state of the art be exaggerated with the aim of getting people excited about the possibilities the technology might afford and encouraging them to invest in research or begin a career in the field? Is now a good time to go into the field (especially compared to other similar options, like going into the booming AI field)?Scott Aaronson is Schlumberger Chair of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin and founding director of its Quantum Information Center, currently on leave at OpenAI to work on theoretical foundations of AI safety. He received his bachelor's from Cornell University and his PhD from UC Berkeley. Before coming to UT Austin, he spent nine years as a professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Aaronson's research in theoretical computer science has focused mainly on the capabilities and limits of quantum computers. His first book, Quantum Computing Since Democritus, was published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press. He received the National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman Award, the United States PECASE Award, the Tomassoni-Chisesi Prize in Physics, and the ACM Prize in Computing; and he is a Fellow of the ACM and the AAAS. Find out more about him at scottaaronson.blog. StaffSpencer Greenberg — Host / DirectorJosh Castle — ProducerRyan Kessler — Audio EngineerUri Bram — FactotumWeAmplify — TranscriptionistsAlexandria D. — Research and Special Projects AssistantMusicBroke for FreeJosh WoodwardLee RosevereQuiet Music for Tiny Robotswowamusiczapsplat.comAffiliatesClearer ThinkingGuidedTrackMind EasePositlyUpLift[Read more]
Here is a panel between David Chalmers and Scott Aaronson at Mindfest 2024. This discussion covers the philosophical implications of the simulation hypothesis, exploring whether our reality might be a simulation and engaging with various perspectives on the topic.This presentation was recorded at MindFest, held at Florida Atlantic University, CENTER FOR THE FUTURE MIND, spearheaded by Susan Schneider.YouTube: https://youtu.be/7PlmOXQ18jk Please consider signing up for TOEmail at https://www.curtjaimungal.org Support TOE: - Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal (early access to ad-free audio episodes!) - Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE - PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE - TOE Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerch Follow TOE: - *NEW* Get my 'Top 10 TOEs' PDF + Weekly Personal Updates: https://www.curtjaimungal.org - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theoriesofeverythingpod - TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theoriesofeverything_ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt - Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802 - Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e - Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything
Scott Aaronson gives a presentation at MindFest 2024, where he critiques the simulation hypothesis by questioning its scientific relevance and examining the computational feasibility of simulating complex physical theories. This presentation was recorded at MindFest, held at Florida Atlantic University, CENTER FOR THE FUTURE MIND, spearheaded by Susan Schneider. Please consider signing up for TOEmail at https://www.curtjaimungal.org LINKS MENTIONED: - Center for the Future Mind (Mindfest @ FAU): https://www.fau.edu/future-mind/ - Other Ai and Consciousness (Mindfest) TOE Podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ7ikzmc6zlOPw7Hqkc6-MXEMBy0fnZcb - Mathematics of String Theory (Video): https://youtu.be/X4PdPnQuwjY Support TOE: - Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal (early access to ad-free audio episodes!) - Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE - PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE - TOE Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerch Follow TOE: - *NEW* Get my 'Top 10 TOEs' PDF + Weekly Personal Updates: https://www.curtjaimungal.org - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theoriesofeverythingpod - TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theoriesofeverything_ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt - Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802 - Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e - Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything
Guest: Jennifer Fernick, Senor Staff Security Engineer and UTL, Google Topics: Since one of us (!) doesn't have a PhD in quantum mechanics, could you explain what a quantum computer is and how do we know they are on a credible path towards being real threats to cryptography? How soon do we need to worry about this one? We've heard that quantum computers are more of a threat to asymmetric/public key crypto than symmetric crypto. First off, why? And second, what does this difference mean for defenders? Why (how) are we sure this is coming? Are we mitigating a threat that is perennially 10 years ahead and then vanishes due to some other broad technology change? What is a post-quantum algorithm anyway? If we're baking new key exchange crypto into our systems, how confident are we that we are going to be resistant to both quantum and traditional cryptanalysis? Why does NIST think it's time to be doing the PQC thing now? Where is the rest of the industry on this evolution? How can a person tell the difference here between reality and snakeoil? I think Anton and I both responded to your initial email with a heavy dose of skepticism, and probably more skepticism than it deserved, so you get the rare on-air apology from both of us! Resources: Securing tomorrow today: Why Google now protects its internal communications from quantum threats How Google is preparing for a post-quantum world NIST PQC standards PQ Crypto conferences “Quantum Computation & Quantum Information” by Nielsen & Chuang book “Quantum Computing Since Democritus” by Scott Aaronson book EP154 Mike Schiffman: from Blueboxing to LLMs via Network Security at Google
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: My PhD thesis: Algorithmic Bayesian Epistemology, published by Eric Neyman on March 17, 2024 on LessWrong. In January, I defended my PhD thesis, which I called Algorithmic Bayesian Epistemology. From the preface: For me as for most students, college was a time of exploration. I took many classes, read many academic and non-academic works, and tried my hand at a few research projects. Early in graduate school, I noticed a strong commonality among the questions that I had found particularly fascinating: most of them involved reasoning about knowledge, information, or uncertainty under constraints. I decided that this cluster of problems would be my primary academic focus. I settled on calling the cluster algorithmic Bayesian epistemology: all of the questions I was thinking about involved applying the "algorithmic lens" of theoretical computer science to problems of Bayesian epistemology. Although my interest in mathematical reasoning about uncertainty dates back to before I had heard of the rationalist community, the community has no doubt influenced and strengthened this interest. The most striking example of this influence is Scott Aaronson's blog post Common Knowledge and Aumann's Agreement Theorem, which I ran into during my freshman year of college.[1] The post made things click together for me in a way that made me more intellectually honest and humble, and generally a better person. I also found the post incredibly intellectually interesting -- and indeed, Chapter 8 of my thesis is a follow-up to Scott Aaronson's academic paper on Aumann's agreement theorem. My interest in forecast elicitation and aggregation, while pre-existing, was no doubt influenced by the EA/rationalist-adjacent forecasting community. And Chapter 9 of the thesis (work I did at the Alignment Research Center) is no doubt causally downstream of the rationalist community. Which is all to say: thank you! Y'all have had a substantial positive impact on my intellectual journey. Chapter descriptions The thesis contains two background chapters followed by seven technical chapters (Chapters 3-9). In Chapter 1 (Introduction), I try to convey what exactly I mean by "algorithmic Bayesian epistemology" and why I'm excited about it. In Chapter 2 (Preliminaries), I give some technical background that's necessary for understanding the subsequent technical chapters. It's intended to be accessible to readers with a general college-level math background. While the nominal purpose of Chapter 2 is to introduce the mathematical tools used in later chapters, the topics covered there are interesting in their own right. Different readers will of course have different opinions about which technical chapters are the most interesting. Naturally, I have my own opinions: I think the most interesting chapters are Chapters 5, 7, and 9, so if you are looking for direction, you may want to tiebreak toward reading those. Here are some brief summaries: Chapter 3: Incentivizing precise forecasts. You might be familiar with proper scoring rules, which are mechanisms for paying experts for forecasts in a way that incentivizes the experts to report their true beliefs. But there are many proper scoring rules (most famously, the quadratic score and the log score), so which one should you use? There are many perspectives on this question, but the one I take in this chapter is: which proper scoring rule most incentivizes experts to do the most research before reporting their forecast? (See also this blog post I wrote explaining the research.) Chapter 4: Arbitrage-free contract functions. Now, what if you're trying to elicit forecasts from multiple experts? If you're worried about the experts colluding, your problem is now harder. It turns out that if you use the same proper scoring rule to pay every expert, then the experts can collu...
LINKS MENTIONED:FAU's Center for the Future Mind Website: https://www.fau.edu/future-mind/The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine (Scott Aanderson): https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.0159TOE's Mindfest Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ7ikzmc6zlOPw7Hqkc6-MXEMBy0fnZcb
Kevin and Sebastian are joined by Dr. Vladan Vuletic, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics at the Center for Ultracold Atoms and Research in the Department of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAt the end of 2023, the quantum computing community was startled and amazed by the results from a bombshell paper published in Nature on December 6th, titled Logical quantum processor based on reconfigurable atom arrays in which Dr. Vuletic's group collaborated with Dr Mikhail Lukin's group at Harvard to create 48 logical qubits from an array of 280 atoms. Scott Aaronson does a good job of breaking down the results on his blog, but the upshot is that this is the largest number of logical qubits created, and a very large leap ahead for the field. 00:00 Introduction and Background01:07 Path to Quantum Computing03:30 Rydberg Atoms and Quantum Gates08:56 Transversal Gates and Logical Qubits15:12 Implementation and Commercial Potential23:59 Future Outlook and Quantum Simulations30:51 Scaling and Applications32:22 Improving Quantum Gate Fidelity33:19 Advancing Field of View Systems33:48 Closing the Feedback Loop on Error Correction35:29 Quantum Error Correction as a Remarkable Breakthrough36:13 Cross-Fertilization of Quantum Error Correction Ideas
- Événements Retour sur les vidéos et présentations de la Q2B SV 2023Elles sont toutes disponibles sur YouTube. John Preskill, Scott Aaronson, Rigetti, QuEra, Quantum Machines, quantum sensing par David Shaw de GQI, etc.Original : une présentation conjointe d'Alice&Bob (Théau Peronnin) et Quantum Machines (Yonathan Cohen).https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh7C25oO7PW11hVx1WfZYEemv09E4rpiThttps://q2b.qcware.com/2023-conferences/silicon-valley/videos/ Quantum Internet Hackathon internationalOrganisé dans 4 pays européens par la Quantum Internet Alliance : Delft (Pays-Bas), Dresde (Allemagne), Paris et Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (Pologne). 15 et 16 février 2024https://quantuminternetalliance.org/quantum-internet-hackathon-2024/https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kapmarc_quantuminternet-quantum-technology-activity-7156200910602358784-qzg7/ Journée nationale de la stratégie quantique du 6 mars organisée par le SGPI. Q2B Paris les 7 et 8 mars coorganisée avec Bpifrance. https://q2b.qcware.com/2024-conferences/paris/ APS March meeting à Mineapolis début mars avec notamment Alice&Bob qui y présentera les résultats de son premier qubit logique. - Science et industrie du quantique Roadmap QuEra jusqu'à 100 qubits logiquesAnnonce du 9 janvier 2024.https://www.quera.com/events/queras-quantum-roadmap Roadmap d'Alice&Bob aussi jusqu'à 100 qubits logiquesAnnonce du 23 janvier.LDPC-cat codes for low-overhead quantum computing in 2D by Diego Ruiz, Jérémie Guillaud, Anthony Leverrier, Mazyar Mirrahimi, and Christophe Vuillot, arXiv, January 2024 (23 pages).+. Elie Girard dans un podcast de Challenge : https://open.spotify.com/episode/3kYxJWAJYf94PjMYR10ngT IonQ atteint 35 qubits utilesAQ 35 in January 2024. https://ionq.com/posts/how-we-achieved-our-2024-performance-target-of-aq-35 Quandela et le projet EPIQUEhttps://www.quandela.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/kick-off-EPIQUE_Pressrelease-_ENG.pdf+ projet OQuLus du PEPR https://www.c2n.universite-paris-saclay.fr/fr/science-societe/actualites/actu/308 La Chine et les qubits supraconducteursAprès Alibaba, Baidu jette aussi l'éponge sur le quantique.https://thequantuminsider.com/2024/01/03/baidu-to-donate-quantum-computing-equipment-to-research-institute/See Schrödinger cats growing up to 60 qubits and dancing in a cat scar enforced discrete time crystal by Zehang Bao et al, arXiv, January 2024 (35 pages). Taiwan créé 5 qubits supraconducteurshttps://thequantuminsider.com/2024/01/24/taiwans-5-qubit-superconducting-quantum-computer-goes-online-ahead-of-schedule/ Des qubits fluxonium en FranceSee High-Sensitivity ac-Charge Detection with a MHz-Frequency Fluxonium Qubit by B.-L. Najera-Santos, R. Rousseau, K. Gerashchenko, H. Patange, A. Riva, M. Villiers, T. Briant, P.-F. Cohadon, A. Heidmann, J. Palomo, M. Rosticher, H. le Sueur, A. Sarlette, W. C. Smith, Z. Leghtas, E. Flurin, T. Jacqmin, and S. Deléglise, Physical Review X, January 2024 (18 pages). Pasqal ouvre un bureau en CoréeRoberto Mauro en prend la direction. https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/pasqal-welcomes-roberto-mauro-as-general-manager-to-spearhead-operations-in-south-korea/Partenariat avec KAIST.https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/pasqal-forms-quantum-partnership-in-korea-with-kaist-and-daejeon-city/ D-WaveIls passent de 500 à 1200 qubits en mode annealing pour leur nouvelle génération Advantage 2https://dwavequantum.com/company/newsroom/press-release/d-wave-announces-1-200-qubit-advantage2-prototype-in-new-lower-noise-fabrication-stack-demonstrating-20x-faster-time-to-solution-on-important-class-of-hard-optimization-problems/ PQC risquéehttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kyberslash-attacks-put-quantum-encryption-projects-at-risk/ QKD pas prête ?https://cyber.gouv.fr/actualites/uses-and-limits-quantum-key-distribution Benchmark d'émulateursBenchmark réalisé par Cornelius Hempel de PSI avec ETH Zurich et EPFL.See Benchmarking quantum computer simulation software packages by Amit Jamadagni, Andreas M. Läuchli, and Cornelius Hempel, arXiv, January 2024 (18 pages). Levée de fonds de Quantinuumhttps://www.quantinuum.com/news/honeywell-announces-the-closing-of-300-million-equity-investment-round-for-quantinuum-at-5b-pre-money-valuation Guerlain et sa crème quantiqueGrosses réactions...
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: On Dwarkesh's 3rd Podcast With Tyler Cowen, published by Zvi on February 4, 2024 on LessWrong. This post is extensive thoughts on Tyler Cowen's excellent talk with Dwarkesh Patel. It is interesting throughout. You can read this while listening, after listening or instead of listening, and is written to be compatible with all three options. The notes are in order in terms of what they are reacting to, and are mostly written as I listened. I see this as having been a few distinct intertwined conversations. Tyler Cowen knows more about more different things than perhaps anyone else, so that makes sense. Dwarkesh chose excellent questions throughout, displaying an excellent sense of when to follow up and how, and when to pivot. The first conversation is about Tyler's book GOAT about the world's greatest economists. Fascinating stuff, this made me more likely to read and review GOAT in the future if I ever find the time. I mostly agreed with Tyler's takes here, to the extent I am in position to know, as I have not read that much in the way of what these men wrote, and at this point even though I very much loved it at the time (don't skip the digression on silver, even, I remember it being great) The Wealth of Nations is now largely a blur to me. There were also questions about the world and philosophy in general but not about AI, that I would mostly put in this first category. As usual, I have lots of thoughts. The second conversation is about expectations given what I typically call mundane AI. What would the future look like, if AI progress stalls out without advancing too much? We cannot rule such worlds out and I put substantial probability on them, so it is an important and fascinating question. If you accept the premise of AI remaining within the human capability range in some broad sense, where it brings great productivity improvements and rewards those who use it well but remains foundationally a tool and everything seems basically normal, essentially the AI-Fizzle world, then we have disagreements but Tyler is an excellent thinker about these scenarios. Broadly our expectations are not so different here. That brings us to the third conversation, about the possibility of existential risk or the development of more intelligent and capable AI that would have greater affordances. For a while now, Tyler has asserted that such greater intelligence likely does not much matter, that not so much would change, that transformational effects are highly unlikely, whether or not they constitute existential risks. That the world will continue to seem normal, and follow the rules and heuristics of economics, essentially Scott Aaronson's Futurama. Even when he says AIs will be decentralized and engage in their own Hayekian trading with their own currency, he does not think this has deep implications, nor does it imply much about what else is going on beyond being modestly (and only modestly) productive. Then at other times he affirms the importance of existential risk concerns, and indeed says we will be in need of a hegemon, but the thinking here seems oddly divorced from other statements, and thus often rather confused. Mostly it seems consistent with the view that it is much easier to solve alignment quickly, build AGI and use it to generate a hegemon, than it would be to get any kind of international coordination. And also that failure to quickly build AI risks our civilization collapsing. But also I notice this implies that the resulting AIs will be powerful enough to enable hegemony and determine the future, when in other contexts he does not think they will even enable sustained 10% GDP growth. Thus at this point, I choose to treat most of Tyler's thoughts on AI as if they are part of the second conversation, with an implicit 'assuming an AI at least semi-fizzle' attached ...
What do the clinical trials of psilocybin and other psychedelics show in terms of efficacy and safety? How much of the benefit with psychedelic treatment is attributable to psychological support? Is the psychedelic trip important for the therapeutic benefits of psychedelic treatments? Brought to you by the NEI Podcast, the PsychopharmaStahlogy Show tackles the most novel, exciting, and controversial topics in psychopharmacology in a series of themes. This theme is on the role of psychedelics in modern psychiatry. Today, Dr. Andy Cutler interviews Dr. Scott Aaronson and Dr. Stephen Stahl about the potential indications and therapeutic benefits of psilocybin and other psychedelics. Let's listen to Part 3 of our theme: Classic Psychedelics for the Modern Psychopharmacologist. Subscribe to the NEI Podcast, so that you don't miss another episode!
Scott Aaronson is one of the deepest mathematical intellects I have known since, say Ed Witten—the only physicist to have won the prestigious Fields Medal in Mathematics. While Ed is a string theorist, Scott decided to devote his mathematical efforts to the field of computer science, and as a theoretical computer scientist has played a major role in the development of algorithms that have pushed forward the field of quantum computing, and helped address several thorny issues that hamper our ability to create practical quantum computers. In addition to his research, Scott has, for a number of years, written a wonderful blog about issues in computing, in particular with regard to quantum computing. It is a great place to get educated about many of these issues. Most recently, Scott has spent the last year at OpenAI thinking about the difficult issue of AI safety, and how to ensure that as AI systems improve that they will not have an unduly negative or dangerous impact on human civilization. As I mention in the podcast I am less worried than some people, and I think so is Scott, but nevertheless, some careful thinking in advance can avert a great deal of hand wringing in the future. Scott has some very interesting ideas that are worth exploring, and we began to explore them in this podcast. Our conversation ran the gamut from quantum computing to AI safety and explored some complex ideas in computer science in the process, in particular the notion of computational complexity, which is important in understanding all of these issues. I hope you will find Scott's remarks as illuminating and informative as I did. As always, an ad-free video version of this podcast is also available to paid Critical Mass subscribers. Your subscriptions support the non-profit Origins Project Foundation, which produces the podcast. The audio version is available free on the Critical Mass site and on all podcast sites, and the video version will also be available on the Origins Project Youtube channel as well. Get full access to Critical Mass at lawrencekrauss.substack.com/subscribe
YouTube link https://youtu.be/1ZpGCQoL2Rk Scott Aaronson joins us to explore quantum computing, complexity theory, Ai, superdeterminism, consciousness, and free will. TIMESTAMPS:- 00:00:00 Introduction- 00:02:27 Turing universality & computational efficiency- 00:12:35 Does prediction undermine free will?- 00:15:16 Newcomb's paradox- 00:23:05 Quantum information & no-cloning- 00:33:42 Chaos & computational irreducibility- 00:38:33 Brain duplication, Ai, & identity- 00:46:43 Many-worlds, Copenhagen, & Bohm's interpretation - 01:03:14 Penrose's view on quantum gravity and consciousness- 01:14:46 Superposition explained: misconceptions of quantum computing - 01:21:33 Wolfram's physics project critique- 01:31:37 P vs NP explained (complexity classes demystified)- 01:53:40 Classical vs quantum computation- 02:03:25 The "pretty hard" problem of consciousness (critiques of IIT) NOTE: The perspectives expressed by guests don't necessarily mirror my own. There's a versicolored arrangement of people on TOE, each harboring distinct viewpoints, as part of my endeavor to understand the perspectives that exist. THANK YOU: To Mike Duffy, of https://dailymystic.org for your insight, help, and recommendations on this channel. - Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal (early access to ad-free audio episodes!)- Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE- PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs- iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802- Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything- TOE Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerch LINKS MENTIONED:- Scott's Blog: https://scottaaronson.blog/- Newcomb's Paradox (Scott's Blog Post): https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=30- A New Kind of Science (Stephen Wolfram): https://amzn.to/47BTiaf- Jonathan Gorard's Papers: https://arxiv.org/search/gr-qc?searchtype=author&query=Gorard,+J- Boson Sampling (Alex Arkhipov and Scott Aaronson): https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.3245- Podcast w/ Tim Maudlin on TOE (Solo): https://youtu.be/fU1bs5o3nss- Podcast w/ Tim Palmer on TOE: https://youtu.be/883R3JlZHXE
YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSbUCEleJhg&t=9315sIn our first ontoprism, we take a look back at FREE WILL across the years at Theories of Everything. If you have suggestions for future ontoprism topics, then comment below.TIMESTAMPS:- 00:00:00 Introduction- 00:02:58 Michael Levin- 00:08:51 David Wolpert (Part 1)- 00:13:48 Donald Hoffman, Joscha Bach- 00:33:10 Stuart Hameroff- 00:38:47 Claudia Passos- 00:40:27 Wolfgang Smith- 00:42:50 Bernardo Kastrup- 00:45:23 Matt O'Dowd- 01:19:06 Anand Vaidya- 01:28:52 Chris Langan, Bernardo Kastrup- 01:44:27 David Wolpert (Part 2)- 01:51:37 Scott Aaronson- 01:59:47 Nicolas Gisin- 02:16:52 David Wolpert (Part 3)- 02:32:39 Brian Keating, Lee Cronin- 02:42:55 Joscha Bach- 02:46:07 Karl Friston- 02:49:28 Noam Chomsky (Part 1)- 02:55:06 John Vervaeke, Joscha Bach- 03:13:27 Stephen Wolfram- 03:32:46 Jonathan Blow- 03:40:08 Noam Chomsky (Part 2)- 03:49:38 Thomas Campbell- 03:55:14 John Vervaeke- 04:02:41 James Robert Brown- 04:13:42 Anil Seth- 04:17:37 More ontoprisms coming...NOTE: The perspectives expressed by guests don't necessarily mirror my own. There's a versicolored arrangement of people on TOE, each harboring distinct viewpoints, as part of my endeavor to understand the perspectives that exist. THANK YOU: To Mike Duffy, of https://dailymystic.org for your insight, help, and recommendations on this channel. - Patreon: / curtjaimungal (early access to ad-free audio episodes!) - Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE - PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE - Twitter: / toewithcurt - Discord Invite: / discord - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast... - Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b9... - Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: / theoriesofeverything - TOE Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerch LINKS MENTIONED: • Free Will Debate: "Is God A Taoist?" ... • Unveiling the Mind-Blowing Biotech of... • David Wolpert: Free Will & No Free Lu... • Donald Hoffman Λ Joscha Bach: Conscio... • Stuart Hameroff: Penrose & Fractal Co... • Wolfgang Smith: Beyond Non-Dualism • Escaping the Illusion: Bernardo Kastr... • Matt O'Dowd: Your Mind vs. The Univer... • Anand Vaidya: Moving BEYOND Non-Dualism • Should You Fear Death? Bernardo Kastr... • David Wolpert: Monotheism Theorem, Un... • Nicolas Gisin: Time, Superdeterminism... • David Wolpert: Monotheism Theorem, Un... • Brian Keating Λ Lee Cronin: Life in t... • Joscha Bach: Time, Simulation Hypothe... • Karl Friston: Derealization, Consciou... • Noam Chomsky • Joscha Bach Λ John Vervaeke: Mind, Id... • Stephen Wolfram: Ruliad, Consciousnes... • Jonathan Blow: Consciousness, Game De... • Noam Chomsky • Thomas Campbell: Ego, Paranormal Psi,... • Thomas Campbell: Remote Viewing, Spea... • John Vervaeke: Psychedelics, Evil, & ... • James Robert Brown: The Continuum Hyp... • Anil Seth: Neuroscience of Consciousn...
In this episode of “The Top Line,” we explore the next potential wave of mental health therapy: psychedelics. Fierce Biotech's Max Bayer sits down with Scott Aaronson, M.D., a seasoned clinician and psychiatrist with over 30 years of experience in the field. They discuss how psychedelics might be used in the treatment of conditions such as depression, substance addiction, PTSD, anorexia, and more. They also examine the obstacles developers face as they advance their studies. To learn more about the topics in this episode: MDMA approval filing nears after drug hits again in phase 3, showing consistent PTSD improvements Early clinical data on psilocybin in anorexia point Compass to potential new opportunity Otsuka adopts new Mindset, dropping $59M to buy Canadian psychedelic biotech See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This episode is sponsored by Crusoe. Crusoe Cloud is a scalable, clean, high-performance cloud, optimized for AI and HPC workloads, and powered by wasted, stranded or clean energy. Crusoe offers virtualized compute and storage solutions for a range of applications - including generative AI, computational biology, and rendering. Visit crusoecloud.com to see what climate-aligned computing can do for your business. On episode #143 of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Scott Aaronson, Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Science at The University of Texas and director of its Quantum Information Center. In this episode, we cut through the quantum computing hype and explore its profound implications for AI. We reveal the practicality of quantum computing, examining how companies are leveraging it to solve intricate problems, like vehicle routing, using D-Wave systems. Scott and I delve into the distinctions between quantum annealing and Grover-type speedups, shedding light on the potential of hybrid solutions that blend classical and quantum elements. Shifting gears, we delve into the synergy between quantum computing and AI safety. Scott shares insights from his work at OpenAI, particularly a project aimed at fine-tuning language models like GPT for detecting AI-generated text, highlighting the implications of such advanced AI technology's potential misuse. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider leaving a 5-star rating on Spotify and a review on Apple Podcasts. Craig Smith's Twitter: https://twitter.com/craigss Eye on A.I. Twitter: https://twitter.com/EyeOn_AI (00:00) Preview and Introduction (04:13) Demystifying Quantum Computing (16:04) Leveraging Quantum Computers for Optimization (31:01) What is Quantum Computing? (42:40) Advancements and Challenges in Quantum Computing (54:57) Machine Learning and AI Safety
In this week's episode, Anna Rose (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Kobi Gurkan (https://twitter.com/kobigurk) chat with Or Sattath (https://twitter.com/or_sattath), Assistant Professor at the Ben-Gurion (https://cris.bgu.ac.il/en/persons/or-sattath) University in the Computer Science department. They deep dive into Or's work on Quantum Cryptography. They begin with definitions of Quantum Computing and Quantum Cryptography, covering what these will mean for existing cryptography. They also explore how new discoveries in this field can interact with existing Proof-of-work systems and how Quantum computers could affect the game theory of mining in the future. Here's some additional links for this episode: On the insecurity of quantum Bitcoin mining by Sattath (https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08118) Strategies for quantum races by Lee, Ray, and Santha (https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.03671) Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and Discrete Logarithms on a Quantum Computer by Shor (https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9508027) Shor's Algorithm (https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/composer/docs/iqx/guide/shors-algorithm) Grover's Algorithm (https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/composer/docs/iqx/guide/grovers-algorithm) A fast quantum mechanical algorithm for database search by Grover (https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9605043) Bell's Theorem (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bell-theorem/) More in-depth resources recommended by Or Sattath: A recommended smbc-comics (https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3) about the power of quantum computing, authored by Zack Weinersmith (the usual cartoonist) and Scott Aaronson (a quantum computing expert) For an in-depth introduction to quantum computing, I recommend Ronald de-Wolf's lecture notes (https://homepages.cwi.nl/~rdewolf/qcnotes.pdf) The Bitcoin backbone protocol with a single quantum miner, by Cojocaru et al (https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1150) The fingerprint of quantum mining slightly below 16 minutes by Nerem-Gaur (https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00878) Some estimates regarding timelines, which we didn't discuss, are available here (https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.10377) and here (https://qrc.btq.li/) The insecurity of quantum Bitcoin mining (https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08118), and the need to change the tie-breaking rule. The work by Lee-Ray-Santh (https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.03671) that analyzes the equilibrium strategy for multiple quantum miners, as a simplified one-shot game. zkSummit 10 is happening in London on September 20, 2023! Apply to attend now -> zkSummit 10 Application Form (https://9lcje6jbgv1.typeform.com/zkSummit10). Polygon Labs (https://polygon.technology/) is thrilled to announce Polygon 2.0: The Value Layer for the Internet (https://polygon.technology/roadmap). Polygon 2.0 and all of our ZK tech is open-source and community-driven. Reach out to the Polygon community on Discord (https://discord.gg/0xpolygon) to learn more, contribute, or join in and build the future of Web3 together with Polygon! If you like what we do: * Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree (https://linktr.ee/zeroknowledge) * Subscribe to our podcast newsletter (https://zeroknowledge.substack.com) * Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) * Join us on Telegram (https://zeroknowledge.fm/telegram) * Catch us on YouTube (https://zeroknowledge.fm/)
Today's episode is a roundtable discussion about AI safety with Eliezer Yudkowsky, Gary Marcus, and Scott Aaronson. Eliezer Yudkowsky is a prominent AI researcher and writer known for co-founding the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, where he spearheaded research on AI safety. He's also widely recognized for his influential writings on the topic of rationality. Scott Aaronson is a theoretical computer scientist and author, celebrated for his pioneering work in the field of quantum computation. He's also the chair of COMSI at U of T Austin, but is currently taking a leave of absence to work at OpenAI. Gary Marcus is a cognitive scientist, author, and entrepreneur known for his work at the intersection of psychology, linguistics, and AI. He's also authored several books, including "Kluge" and "Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust".This episode is all about AI safety. We talk about the alignment problem. We talk about the possibility of human extinction due to AI. We talk about what intelligence actually is. We talk about the notion of a singularity or an AI takeoff event and much more.It was really great to get these three guys in the same virtual room and I think you'll find that this conversation brings something a bit fresh to a topic that has admittedly been beaten to death on certain corners of the internet.
We've heard on the show before about software needed to secure devices in a post-quantum world, but what about the hardware? Mamta Gupta from Lattice Semiconductor is here to tell us all about that! A note: at one point, Mamta talks about massive parallelism being the reason for quantum computing's speedup. As far as I can tell, it's not. I didn't think during the podcast was the best time to bring it up, but if you want to learn more, I recommend looking at the episode I did with Scott Aaronson and also the episode with Jon Skerrett CNSA 2.0: https://media.defense.gov/2022/Sep/07/2003071834/-1/-1/0/CSA_CNSA_2.0_ALGORITHMS_.PDF Isara timeline: https://www.isara.com/blog-posts/quantum-computing-urgency-and-timeline.html Cryptographic Agility with Mike Brown – Episode 37: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Cryptographic-Agility-with-Mike-Brown--Episode-37-e133ela https://www.latticesemi.com/ Quantum Open Source Foundation: https://qosf.org/ QOSF showcase: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/QOSF-Showcase--Episode-28-Hybrid-eqir0q Interview with Michal Stechly (founder of QOSF): https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Micha-Stchy-and-QOSF--Episode-21-Hybrid-ej5e2u Lattice LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lattice-semiconductor Lattice twitter: http://www.twitter.com/latticesemi Lattice Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/latticesemi https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698 Monero: 47e9C55PhuWDksWL9BRoJZ2N5c6FwP9EFUcbWmXZS8AWfazgxZVeaw7hZZmXXhf3VQgodWKwVq629YC32tEd1STkStwfh5Y Ethereum: 0x9392079Eb419Fa868a8929ED595bd3A85397085B --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/quantumcomputingnow/message
The paperclipsalypse has arrived, as AI comes to destroy or save the world. Was AI there all along and we just now “discovered” its weird and eternal life? The “paperclip maximizer” thought experiment: https://nickbostrom.com/ethics/ai Eliezar Yudkowsky in TIME magazine, “Shut it Down”: https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/ Scott Aaronson, Shtetl-Optimized: https://scottaaronson.blog/ Drake + The Weeknd AI hit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81Kafnm0eKQAI Beer commercial: https://www.tiktok.com/@realwholesomechannel/video/7227965471683775771 What if the AI was already there? https://twitter.com/drmichaellevin/status/1637449677028093953?s=20 Jacques Vallée on UFOs: https://www.wired.com/story/jacques-vallee-still-doesnt-know-what-ufos-are/ AI (2001 movie) scene: “The Flesh Fair”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMbAmqD_tn0
One of these white pills is more realistic than the other. Which one is which is left as an exercise to the listener. 😉 Roko's White Pill AXRP reform AI Alignment with Scott Aaronson
Machine Alignment Monday 3/13/23 https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/why-i-am-not-as-much-of-a-doomer (see also Katja Grace and Will Eden's related cases) The average online debate about AI pits someone who thinks the risk is zero, versus someone who thinks it's any other number. I agree these are the most important debates to have for now. But within the community of concerned people, numbers vary all over the place: Scott Aaronson says says 2% Will MacAskill says 3% The median machine learning researcher on Katja Grace's survey says 5 - 10% Paul Christiano says 10 - 20% The average person working in AI alignment thinks about 30% Top competitive forecaster Eli Lifland says 35% Holden Karnofsky, on a somewhat related question, gives 50% Eliezer Yudkowsky seems to think >90% As written this makes it look like everyone except Eliezer is
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/kelly-bets-on-civilization Scott Aaronson makes the case for being less than maximally hostile to AI development: Here's an example I think about constantly: activists and intellectuals of the 70s and 80s felt absolutely sure that they were doing the right thing to battle nuclear power. At least, I've never read about any of them having a smidgen of doubt. Why would they? They were standing against nuclear weapons proliferation, and terrifying meltdowns like Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, and radioactive waste poisoning the water and soil and causing three-eyed fish. They were saving the world. Of course the greedy nuclear executives, the C. Montgomery Burnses, claimed that their good atom-smashing was different from the bad atom-smashing, but they would say that, wouldn't they? We now know that, by tying up nuclear power in endless bureaucracy and driving its cost ever higher, on the principle that if nuclear is economically competitive then it ipso facto hasn't been made safe enough, what the antinuclear activists were really doing was to force an ever-greater reliance on fossil fuels. They thereby created the conditions for the climate catastrophe of today. They weren't saving the human future; they were destroying it. Their certainty, in opposing the march of a particular scary-looking technology, was as misplaced as it's possible to be. Our descendants will suffer the consequences. Read carefully, he and I don't disagree. He's not scoffing at doomsday predictions, he's more arguing against people who say that AIs should be banned because they might spread misinformation or gaslight people or whatever.
Jim talks with Anil Seth about his book Being You: A New Science of Consciousness. They discuss the curious non-experience of general anesthesia, defining consciousness, the difference between consciousness & intelligence, experiential vs functional aspects, the hard problem vs the real problem, measuring consciousness, consciousness vs wakefulness, Lempel-Ziv complexity, zap & zip, consciousness as multidimensional, psychedelic states of consciousness, integrated information theory & phi, Scott Aaronson's expander grids, quantum IIT, accounting for conscious contents, the Bayesian brain, paying attention, Adelson's checkerboard, the perception census, prediction error minimization, active inference, the two bridges experiment, aspects of self, the rubber hand illusion, somatoparaphrenia, separating self from personal identity, whether advanced mammals have personal identity, being a beast machine, and much more. Episode Transcript JRS EP97 - Emery Brown on Consciousness & Anesthesia JRS EP148 - Antonio Damasio on Feeling and Knowing The Perception Census Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Program on Brain, Mind and Consciousness, a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Investigator, and Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Neuroscience of Consciousness (Oxford University Press). With more than two decades of research and outreach experience, Anil's mission is to advance the science of consciousness and to use its insights for the benefit of society, technology and medicine. An internationally leading researcher, Anil is also a renowned public speaker, best-selling author, and sought-after collaborator on high-profile art-science projects.
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