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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OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
2:23 – Beff Jezos
12:21 – Thermodynamics
18:36 – Doxxing
28:30 – Anonymous bots
35:58 – Power
38:29 – AI dangers
42:01 – Building AGI
50:14 – Merging with AI
57:56 – p(doom)
1:13:23 – Quantum machine learning
1:26:41 – Quantum computer
1:35:15 – Aliens
1:40:04 – Quantum gravity
1:45:25 – Kardashev scale
1:47:17 – Effective accelerationism (e/acc)
1:57:47 – Humor and memes
2:00:53 – Jeff Bezos
2:07:25 – Elon Musk
2:13:55 – Extropic
2:22:31 – Singularity and AGI
2:26:29 – AI doomers
2:27:54 – Effective altruism
2:34:23 – Day in the life
2:40:50 – Identity
2:43:40 – Advice for young people
2:45:42 – Mortality
2:49:25 – Meaning of life
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