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Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101

Lex Fridman · 2.2M views · 2020-06-13 · 3:00:18

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Overview

Lex Fridman has a three-hour conversation with Joscha Bach about artificial consciousness, the workings of the mind, intelligence and the possibly simulated nature of reality.

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Praised as a long but rewarding conversation, with commenters especially liking Bach's emphasis on modelling as a skill and his bridge between mind and computation.

Recommended by 6 HN people across 5 months · HN mentions 2020–2021

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Consciousness & cognitionTech pioneers & interviewsMachine learning & deep learning
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joscha bachconsciousnessartificial intelligencesimulationphilosophy of mind

What people said

meowface · 2021-12 · Strong recommendation

Same for me. His first interview with him was also my favorite podcast episode of 2020. Also, you can watch it in video form. I'd argue it's better that way, especially with the way he emotes during certain parts of the discussion. Episode 1: [VIDEO] Episode 2: [LINK]

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miketery · 2020-09 · Strong recommendation

The best I've seen the topic of mind and computation bridged and well communicated has been by Joscha Bach. Recommend watching this video on Computational Meta-Psychology [1]. Also his 3 hour conversation with Lex Fridman is a whole other amazing rabbit hole [2]. [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO]

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alexshortt · 2020-07 · Strong recommendation

I really love his emphasis on modelling as a skill. Its obviously great applied to technical skills like computer science, but he seems to apply it to everything else in the human experience so well. "everything that we sense is part of the same object ... we learn it all into one model ... we call this model the universe" [VIDEO]

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