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Mind Surgery: Memory & Cloning
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Measures of Wealth, Beauty, Quality & Morality
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The Growth of Evolutionary Power
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Could evolution produce an F-22 Raptor?
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Antimimetics in the 23rd Dimension
The need for diverse criteria of progress and success How neural networks and evolution avoid getting stuck in local optimaTuring completeness, Popper completeness, and other forms of…
Complexity, Abstraction, & Replication
We discuss:Process-oriented fields like economics, evolution, and epistemologyLevels of abstraction and explanation vs. interacting domains of thoughtDifferent measures of complexity - of programs,…
AGI & The Blind Watchmaker
Godel, Escher, Bach & Hofstadter's focus on self-reference vs. David Deutschs focus on universalityComparing knowledge about what to do vs. what is true, and whether you should ever give…
The Most Powerful Possible Mind
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The Knowledge-Based View
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Delphinus Sapiens: human brains in dolphin bodies
1. Dolphins. Transplant human brains into dolphin bodies. How long before they build printing presses? More generally, what matters more: our hands or our brains?2. Set. Point. Search. Human power…
AGI = Darwin + Turing + Darwin
What makes something an AGI? What requirements should it meet?1. Darwin. It should be able to explore many possibilities, via variation and selection.2. Turing. It should have the widest set of…
S1E2 Progress & Knowledge
In this episode, I discuss:1. Progress. What makes progress possible? What makes it go faster? What makes it go further?2. Four elements of knowledge-creation. Variation, selection, attention, &…
S1E1 Variation, Selection, Universality, & Attention
Howdy! I'm Carlos, and I work on artificial general intelligence. In this episode, I discuss:My main research question: What makes human minds so powerful?Why the Darwinian ideas of variation and…
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AGI with Carlos has published 13 episodes since June 2024, covering topics in Life Sciences, Science.
AGI with Carlos is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 1h 15m.
