#407 Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

Published: Dec. 29, 2023, 9:03 p.m.

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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\nTranscript: https://lexfridman.com/guillaume-verdon-transcript
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\nGuillaume Verdon Twitter: https://twitter.com/GillVerd
\nBeff Jezos Twitter: https://twitter.com/BasedBeffJezos
\nExtropic: https://extropic.ai/
\nE/acc Blog: https://effectiveaccelerationism.substack.com/
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\nOUTLINE:
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\n(00:00) - Introduction
\n(09:18) - Beff Jezos
\n(19:16) - Thermodynamics
\n(25:31) - Doxxing
\n(35:25) - Anonymous bots
\n(42:53) - Power
\n(45:24) - AI dangers
\n(48:56) - Building AGI
\n(57:09) - Merging with AI
\n(1:04:51) - p(doom)
\n(1:20:18) - Quantum machine learning
\n(1:33:36) - Quantum computer
\n(1:42:10) - Aliens
\n(1:46:59) - Quantum gravity
\n(1:52:20) - Kardashev scale
\n(1:54:12) - Effective accelerationism (e/acc)
\n(2:04:42) - Humor and memes
\n(2:07:48) - Jeff Bezos
\n(2:14:20) - Elon Musk
\n(2:20:50) - Extropic
\n(2:29:26) - Singularity and AGI
\n(2:33:24) - AI doomers
\n(2:34:49) - Effective altruism
\n(2:41:18) - Day in the life
\n(2:47:45) - Identity
\n(2:50:35) - Advice for young people
\n(2:52:37) - Mortality
\n(2:56:20) - Meaning of life