#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness

Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(07:15) - Life is hard
(09:38) - Consciousness
(16:24) - What is life?
(26:33) - Free will
(40:38) - Simulation
(42:49) - Base layer of reality
(58:24) - Boston Dynamics
(1:06:43) - Engineering consciousness
(1:17:12) - Suffering
(1:26:06) - Postmodernism
(1:30:25) - Psychedelics
(1:43:40) - GPT-3
(1:52:22) - GPT-4
(1:58:47) - OpenAI Codex
(2:01:02) - Humans vs AI: Who is more dangerous?
(2:17:47) - Hitler
(2:22:44) - Autonomous weapon systems
(2:30:11) - Mark Zuckerberg
(2:35:47) - Love
(2:50:00) - Michael Malice and anarchism
(3:06:57) - Love
(3:11:05) - Advice for young people
(3:15:42) - Meaning of life