#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness
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<p><b>OUTLINE:</b><br />
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(00:00) – Introduction<br />
(07:15) – Life is hard<br />
(09:38) – Consciousness<br />
(16:24) – What is life?<br />
(26:33) – Free will<br />
(40:38) – Simulation<br />
(42:49) – Base layer of reality<br />
(58:24) – Boston Dynamics<br />
(1:06:43) – Engineering consciousness<br />
(1:17:12) – Suffering<br />
(1:26:06) – Postmodernism<br />
(1:30:25) – Psychedelics<br />
(1:43:40) – GPT-3<br />
(1:52:22) – GPT-4<br />
(1:58:47) – OpenAI Codex<br />
(2:01:02) – Humans vs AI: Who is more dangerous?<br />
(2:17:47) – Hitler<br />
(2:22:44) – Autonomous weapon systems<br />
(2:30:11) – Mark Zuckerberg<br />
(2:35:47) – Love<br />
(2:50:00) – Michael Malice and anarchism<br />
(3:06:57) – Love<br />
(3:11:05) – Advice for young people<br />
(3:15:42) – Meaning of life</p>