(Overtime audio available to paid subscribers through the player at the top of the page and video version available below the paywall.)
0:38 The biggest surprise of Paul’s intellectual life
8:13 What the three college presidents should have said about free speech
20:39 Ramaswamy’s hot mic moment: mistake or power move?
22:45 Elon’s scorched-earth moment: power move or mental break?
30:49 Paul gets fact-checked—and likes it
36:02 In aligning AI, should we aim higher than human values?
40:29 Bob DESTROYS Paul’s AI article
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Paul Bloom (https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net, University of Toronto, The Sweet Spot, Against Empathy). Recorded December 11, 2023.
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Overtime titles:
0:00 Paul DESTROYS Bob’s destruction of Paul’s AI article
6:17 Can LLMs transcend their training?
15:20 How real is the AI hallucination problem?
18:49 Bob breaks the Bostrom simulation argument (and Paul’s brain)
26:14 Could AI become conscious? Could the USA?
30:24 In partial defense of SBF
35:15 Bob’s utilitarianism vs Peter Singer’s utilitarianism
39:34 Freddie deBoer vs effective altruism
