{"id":10270,"date":"2026-10-31T16:40:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T21:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=10270"},"modified":"2026-10-31T16:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T21:40:33","slug":"podcast-about-the-topic-part-iii-with-brian-greene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=10270","title":{"rendered":"Podcast about the Topic: Part III, with Brian Greene"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boooooo!  What <em>spooooky<\/em> times we now live in, with AI rapidly advancing in capabilities and solving more and more major open math problems!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So it seems like a perfect occasion to share yet another podcast.  I know I&#8217;ve been dropping them like every day, but this is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NWNbAEivyvs\">special one<\/a>, with Brian Greene for his World Science Festival, recorded in-person when I visited Columbia University a week ago.  Note that we don&#8217;t talk about OpenAI&#8217;s refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothesis because the announcement of that was still two days in the future!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NWNbAEivyvs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boooooo! What spooooky times we now live in, with AI rapidly advancing in capabilities and solving more and more major open math problems! So it seems like a perfect occasion to share yet another podcast. I know I&#8217;ve been dropping them like every day, but this is a special one, with Brian Greene for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,48,31,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-meatspace","category-ai","category-announcements","category-the-fate-of-humanity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10271,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10270\/revisions\/10271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}