21. LIFE (w/ Blaise Agüera y Arcas)
Nov 14, 2024 ·
1h 2m 38s
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Blaise Agüera y Arcas is one of most important people in AI, and apart from his leadership position as CTO of Technology & Society at Google, he has one of...
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Blaise Agüera y Arcas is one of most important people in AI, and apart from his leadership position as CTO of Technology & Society at Google, he has one of those resumes or affiliations lists that seems to span a lot of very fundamental things. He’s amazing; the thoughtfulness and generosity with which he communicates on this episode gently embraced our brains while lazering them to mush. We hope you have the same experience.
References include:
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References include:
- Blaise’s own books Who Are We Now?, Ubi Sunt, and the upcoming What Is Intelligence?
- He references James C. Scott’s Seeing Like a State, which we strongly recommend, Benjamin Peters’ How Not to Network a Nation, and Red Plenty by Francis Spufford.
- Strong recommendation also to Benjamin Labatut’s When We Cease to Understand the World.
- Roberto references Luciana Parisi’s Abstract Sex (our favorite book!) and the work of Lynn Margulis with respect to biology and reproduction.
- Blaise references James E. Lovelock’s project “Daisyworld” with respect to the Gaia hypothesis.
- He also references the Active Inference thesis, e.g. that of Karl J. Friston, and the work of Dan Sperber and Hugo Mercer on reason.
- The cellular automata work referenced here involves the Von Neumann cellular automaton and the Wolfram neural cellular automaton.
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| Author | Marek Poliks, Roberto Alonso |
| Organization | Marek Poliks |
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