{"id":5005,"date":"2020-10-12T09:38:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T14:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=5005"},"modified":"2020-10-13T15:46:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T20:46:36","slug":"my-second-podcast-with-lex-fridman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=5005","title":{"rendered":"My second podcast with Lex Fridman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nAMjv0NAESM&amp;list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4\">Here it is&#8212;enjoy!<\/a>  (I strongly recommend listening at 2x speed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We recorded it a month ago&#8212;outdoors (for obvious covid reasons), on a covered balcony in Austin, as it drizzled all around us.  Topics included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Whether the universe is a simulation<\/li><li>Eugene Goostman, GPT-3, the Turing Test, and consciousness<\/li><li>Why I disagree with Integrated Information Theory<\/li><li>Why I disagree with Penrose&#8217;s ideas about physics and the mind<\/li><li>Intro to complexity theory, including P, NP, PSPACE, BQP, and SZK<\/li><li>The US&#8217;s catastrophic failure on covid<\/li><li>The importance of the election<\/li><li>My objections to cancel culture<\/li><li>The role of love in my life (!)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks so much to Lex for his characteristically probing questions, apologies as always for my verbal tics, and here&#8217;s our <a href=\"https:\/\/lexfridman.com\/scott-aaronson-2\/\">first podcast<\/a> for those who missed that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is&#8212;enjoy! (I strongly recommend listening at 2x speed.) We recorded it a month ago&#8212;outdoors (for obvious covid reasons), on a covered balcony in Austin, as it drizzled all around us. Topics included: Whether the universe is a simulation Eugene Goostman, GPT-3, the Turing Test, and consciousness Why I disagree with Integrated Information Theory [&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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[5,12,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complexity","category-metaphysical-spouting","category-quantum","category-the-fate-of-humanity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005","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=5005"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5009,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions\/5009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}