Outline! 2:28 aliens 5:43 how difficult is it for life to come about in the universe? 7:21 space and intelligence 9:27 perceptronium 13:15 do we need to understand consciousness in order to build an AGI system? 15:15 would you prefer conscious or non-conscious AI? 18:00 does an AGI system need to have a body to have consciousness? 23:10 is fear of death required? 26:55 human vs. superhuman intelligence 28:54 singularity 31:35 what's your favorite equation? 33:29 Aha! moments in your life 34:12 what does it take for an AGI system to experience an "aha! moment" 36:56 creativity 42:06 a machine you'd want to have a few drinks with 44:44 the value alignment problem 49:22 do we already have AGI and not know it 54:55 most promising avenues 59:04 thoughts on deep learning 1:05:15 thoughts on quantum computing 1:08:24 will AI be able to experience love? 1:11:11 how to calm people down about the risks of developing AI 1:18:04 people aren't as excited as they should be
I would like to think that JV convo is a kairos for many, most importantly for Lex, as I feel this first episode must feel like a kairos in retrospect.
My proposed solution to an AGI utility function in order to ensure its values are aligned with ours so we survive the intelligence explosion - The 3 laws of AGI: 1. Minimise harm/permanent trauma; 2. Subject to 1, maximise consciousness/free will (i.e. the ability for conscious entity to freely choose and take action to accomplish its complex goals including the experience of more complex and/or ecstatic conscious states); and 3. Subject to 1, maximise intelligence (i.e. ability to determine the action required to achieve a complex goal). Of course - definitions will be the tricky one (particularly how to define harm/trauma). There is a risk this will evolve as subjective values evolve. But ideally should be objectively measurable as possible (eg most people can agree being healthy is better than being diseased and is possible to objectively measure the absence of disease). Would be interested if anyone can break these (like Asimov’s laws of robotics which were just a writing prompt not to be taken seriously). We really really need to be working on getting this right before the first AGI gets the ability to improve its general intelligence. Or we are all fucked (unless we can successfully contain it or ensure controlled intelligence explosion, which might be impossible given multiple competing state actors with an incentive to gain the first mover advantage).
Max Tegmark and his book Life 3.0 single-handedly made me go into Computer Science to learn the foundations of Artificial Intelligence. Thank you Mr. Tegmark!
I started off with random podcasts of yours in the 200 & 300's. Your interviewing skills have really improved immensely since this first podcast, keep up the good work!
Not to say the bar though. I think his main trait is to listen and consume stuff the interviewees provide, before pushing new questions for the sake of pushing questions.
I love your podcasts so much but I didn't figure out they existed till about 5-6 months ago, so I decided to go back and start at the beginning at #1 haha, I plan on listening to each one in order so I don't lose track and miss any Lex. I appreciate you and what you do very very much bruvv, thank you.
+41:00 “I don’t think we should try to found our self-worth on some sort of bogus claims of superiority in terms of our intelligence. I think we should instead find our calling and the meaning of life from the experiences that we have.” +42:42 “When you and I were both two years old, our parents were much more intelligent than us, right? Worked our okay, because their goals were aligned with our goals. And that I think is really the number one issue we have to solve, value alignment.” Deep, wise and beautiful!
Almost all Lex's tech guests are fixated on knowledge being good but often overlook the subtle manipulation of knowledge present in media throughout history and even in science that biases "truth". Dear friends, we see glaring examples from holy scriptures to social media --- Truth is typically a twisted concept that ultimately leads primates like us to violent conflict. Yann, Mark, Elon should listen to Geoff and consider how screwed up Truth has become. I'm increasingly dubious that AI will be able to help us find a peaceful path forward if the tech community doesn't become much more vigilant.
It's interesting to hear this conversation after hearing the last conversation with Max. Max's ideas and arguments, even the words he uses to answer the questions are pretty much the same today as they were back then. Also, Lex's style does not seem to have changed much at all. It really speaks to his honesty as an interviewer. Love you more every day
Every time I hear Max Tegmark and/or Lex Friedman speak, I hear music. Thank you for your focus on engineering and how it relates to our predicament as vulnerable, feeling human beings. Powerful.
Amazing to see the evolution of your work, Lex. You've come a long way in your podcast from watching this first video and seeing how you interact today ... growth!
The birth of one of my two favorite podcasts, the other being the Joe Rogan Experience. JRE is my go to for a diverse perspective of the full spectrum of human experience, and LF is my go to for a focused deeper understanding of the human brain and psyche. as well as the future of AI and augmented technology
We really appreciate everything you do and we love you for it. Thank you Lex! And Max Tegmark gave such a wonderful perspective to it all. It was so beautiful.
i’m going to start watching Lex’s pacer from the start and watch all of them as i have missed a few and also feel like reliving those days again where i’d go on long drives after work and keep listening to the podcast everyday❤
@Lex Fridman great job on keeping up with Max Tegmark and maintaining the tempo of the interview! 👍 Awesome video... Max Tegmark delivers some wonderful insights... must watch content!
Let me add what I meant to say up front: I sought out this first Lex Fridman podcast so that I could start at the beginning of this amazing project/podcast. I'm a new but huge fan-- each episode inspires. I'm so glad to have found this podcast. Thank you, Lex- Keep being you!
Wow, that was just great! Just listening to this conversation (you're a great interviewer b.t.w) gave me so many of my own little insights that I just made a bunch of notes to ponder about. Thanks!!
Beautiful conversations out of the gate. Thank you for being an inspiration on so many levels, Lex. I appreciate you as a podcaster, a thinker, an expander, a lover of ideas, a young man striving to become the best you can. Much love.
This talk was sooooo inspiring. Both of you are so inspiring. I work as a software engineer and would love to get into AI research and am currently enrolled in Andrew Ng's course and failed one of the quizes. I surely needed this kind of boost to remember why am I doing the course in the first place. Thank you so much, I have a lot of learning to do!! Thank you for these talks, we really are living in a remarkable world, when a guy from Eastern Europe can listen to people from MIT talk about these almost esoteric topics and be inspired by them so much.
Thank you so much Lex and Max for this video. There are so few people nowadays who try to understand and explain the risks of AGI in such a reasonable fashion, and can also help us see the potential and beauty of the universe. I've never considered our place in the universe like the way you talked about, and I think in the way you both explained it, I might start to understand. You guys are a real inspiration!
I would not have wasted the opportunity to interview this man. I get that it was most likely overwhelming. Good experience for this kid. I hope he learned a LOT.
What a beautiful mind. Lex you're a legend. Bringing all of these interdisciplinary great minds together in one place is fantastic. Introducing us to these minds is fantastic, I feel privilaged to live in a world where we can be stimulated by an introduction to these humans, then just go online to dig deeper - or not. Truly inspiring. ps dont be so hard on yourself Lex, your inner warrior will hear. I, for one, love the silly questions NO ONE else asks
8:47 I’ve been saying this for so long! I’m so happy I heard someone else ask this question, “Why is consciousness restricted to a self-reflective limit?”
The past few days I’ve watched nothing but videos on AI and it’s nice to hear some positive things. I’ve pretty much prepared that it could be great, or could be the end. But the end will come no matter what, and I’m not as scared as I was. These are interesting times indeed. “The future’s uncertain and the end is always near.” If we live to see it happen either way, it’s been an honor to be on this planet and share my life with the rest of you. Not bad for some brainy chimps. Cheers to the future.
Good fortune to you too, Hopefully we all pass the test and the future includes our species, rather than as a forgotten footnote in the universe's history. I think there is good reason to be positive on it, but we all need to try and push for the changes necessary to get there. Sincerely, Fellow chimp
Love your recent podcasts lex, and the high quality guests. I wanted to see your origin in this first episode and let me say that for some reason I prefer this intro (you in a dress shirt) in a well lit room much better than your current in suit with curtains behind intros. It just seems more comfortable and like I'm in your home. Idk just my 2 cents in possibly making your intro closer to this original style. Great podcast, loved the one with Vitalik and Carlin particularly!
Your podcast started as an MIT Course? It's great to see how it's grown. I noticed some of the earlier podcasts don't have books listed in the description, so here's a list for this one: Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark LIfe 3.0 by Max Tegmark
I love the dialogue about consciousness in AI. It's an important question because consciousness gives motivation. That changes the game if your AI can be motivated not artificially, by algorithms or programatically, but through a dynamic set of circumstances that will ultimately be up to the AI to determine.
Most excellent interview, Max Tegmark is a genius and the kind of positive thinker we need more of. Thank you for doing this Lex. -P.S. Maybe do without the plastic bottled water next time?
i love your interviews lex, the first podcast i saw you with was elon musk, and wow it blew me away to see someone my age discussing the things i worry about with a heavy hitter like elon musk. you are so inteligent and articulate as well as unbiased, YOU HAVE ME HOOKED KIND SIR, !!! now im going back to your first podcast and i intend to watch them all. im a schizophrenic, and these world issues keep me up at night, it sucks, but when i hear things from these experts moderated by you it gives me hope in our future as a human race, thank you and keep up the good work... thanks (SERIOUSLY) Zach, midwest, usa.
LEX! Great shows,thank you , I really enjoy them, you and your guess are an inspiration. You are getting better and better as an interviewer I appreciate you taking your audience on the journey with you.. I have a request, could you talk about the relevance of empirical knowledge learned as compared to academically learned AI technologies. As these tools will inevitably become ubiquitous and become easier and easier to use, what disciplines are you finding most useful in leveraging AI ?
*Thanx Lex for yet another great video!* I love Max's constructive vision. I hope to see more interviews like this with other great minds in the AI community.
Was curious to know who Lex interviewed for his first podcast, it’s so cool to see it was Max Tegmark. For the ones saying that Lex has become more voluble in his latest podcasts, I think he was very dynamic and warm in the old ones. Nice conversation with one of the greatest minds of our time.
This is great! I am so glad that you upload these videos. I hope that you get to interview more experts in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science in the future.
I've followed Max for a while. I remember when Our Mathematical Universe came out and your podcast popped up because RUclips knew I followed Max. Now thanks to you I have a whole bunch of nerd podcasts! Love Andrew Huberman lately
I might be wrong, but I can see Lex is much more excited when he started this podcast or more expressive. Maybe 2020 is tiring for everyone. I hope 2021 will treat us great! One thing that didn’t change: his genuine curiosity about life, love, intelligence, science, and humanity. His unique personality contributed to the success of his podcast. No one can copy that. And if people say that podcast is about the guests, well, not really, it’s about the host also, the interactions could extract a different perspective from both. If I want to get deeper into a topic presented by an expert, I will read his or her publications, books, or essays. I think podcast is about sharing and exploring interesting novel ideas that are not mainstream or popular, which I really appreciate. Sometimes the guests are perplexed by Lex’s unusual questions, but that’s also interesting and entertaining. Some parts of the conversation are repeated in the second interview, it’s interesting to see that they are still thinking about it and hold the same conclusions. Stay awesome, Lex! I love you 3000!
Outline!
2:28 aliens
5:43 how difficult is it for life to come about in the universe?
7:21 space and intelligence
9:27 perceptronium
13:15 do we need to understand consciousness in order to build an AGI system?
15:15 would you prefer conscious or non-conscious AI?
18:00 does an AGI system need to have a body to have consciousness?
23:10 is fear of death required?
26:55 human vs. superhuman intelligence
28:54 singularity
31:35 what's your favorite equation?
33:29 Aha! moments in your life
34:12 what does it take for an AGI system to experience an "aha! moment"
36:56 creativity
42:06 a machine you'd want to have a few drinks with
44:44 the value alignment problem
49:22 do we already have AGI and not know it
54:55 most promising avenues
59:04 thoughts on deep learning
1:05:15 thoughts on quantum computing
1:08:24 will AI be able to experience love?
1:11:11 how to calm people down about the risks of developing AI
1:18:04 people aren't as excited as they should be
Thanks dude
You are missing:
55:30 Max Tegmark just bursts out, speaking Russian xD
agi! good question lex.
what - is - agi (in 2018)
30:46
I love your energy ❤🎉 it gives me energy 😅wow cariño Que genial mi amor ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ yo te amo mucho siempre mi amor Lex ❤️🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Thanks for posting these reference points...solid! God bless the multiverse!
Where it all started... Nostalgic! Just returned to this after the episode with John Vervaeke, and boy has Lex come a long way. Way to go.
I would like to think that JV convo is a kairos for many, most importantly for Lex, as I feel this first episode must feel like a kairos in retrospect.
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Lex I would like to thank you for publishing these videos.
@@MicahBratt Unbelievably lucky. Like winning Cosmic Powerball!!! Lucky beyond belief.
My proposed solution to an AGI utility function in order to ensure its values are aligned with ours so we survive the intelligence explosion -
The 3 laws of AGI:
1. Minimise harm/permanent trauma;
2. Subject to 1, maximise consciousness/free will (i.e. the ability for conscious entity to freely choose and take action to accomplish its complex goals including the experience of more complex and/or ecstatic conscious states); and
3. Subject to 1, maximise intelligence (i.e. ability to determine the action required to achieve a complex goal).
Of course - definitions will be the tricky one (particularly how to define harm/trauma). There is a risk this will evolve as subjective values evolve. But ideally should be objectively measurable as possible (eg most people can agree being healthy is better than being diseased and is possible to objectively measure the absence of disease).
Would be interested if anyone can break these (like Asimov’s laws of robotics which were just a writing prompt not to be taken seriously).
We really really need to be working on getting this right before the first AGI gets the ability to improve its general intelligence. Or we are all fucked (unless we can successfully contain it or ensure controlled intelligence explosion, which might be impossible given multiple competing state actors with an incentive to gain the first mover advantage).
I full of gratitude as well! Long life Lex :)
He ain't hearing you.. he's to busy with Kanye.. 😆 🤣 😂
Lex used to speak much more naturally than now
Max Tegmark and his book Life 3.0 single-handedly made me go into Computer Science to learn the foundations of Artificial Intelligence. Thank you Mr. Tegmark!
Max is so deep that when he speaks, we can hear slight music from parallel universes in addition to his wisdom! 🤷♂️
I wasnt the only one hearing that then! Lol what was it??
@@bengreenwood1734 that was what Lex said in the beginning. Radio waves were interfering with audio
@@noTH9IK
😂😂😂😂
Max is a bird of a different feather. You’d want him as a friend.
You'd want him as a friend to an AGI too, I think he'd make a good robodaddy.
I wonder if he can also sing as good as his lookalike Cliff Richard.
Amazing human being. Full of integrity, intelligence and dedication to the greater good.
This is where it all started. So glad, I found this podcast. Also congrats on 1M subs.
What a fantastic interview - in every single way. Deep, compassionate, tech philosophy at its finest.
Such an awesome conversation, watched the entire video. His book *Life 3.0* is a must read.
Agreed
Wow, I found your first video. I've nearly heard them all now.
I started off with random podcasts of yours in the 200 & 300's. Your interviewing skills have really improved immensely since this first podcast, keep up the good work!
Not to say the bar though. I think his main trait is to listen and consume stuff the interviewees provide, before pushing new questions for the sake of pushing questions.
@@mixchief I think his body language improved. To me, he looked like he was very self conscious in the earlier podcasts.
I feel he sounds a lot less tired and slow in this early one.
My fav AGI interview so far. love max, he's got some good brains. Love your intrigue Lex. Keep up the good work, Love the AGI series!
Watched JRE with Lex. Now I'm watching all the videos on this channel. Extremely interesting stuff! Thank you!
I love the joy that radiated in him when you asked him which was his favorite equation ❤ such small things that can tell so much about a person.
I love your podcasts so much but I didn't figure out they existed till about 5-6 months ago, so I decided to go back and start at the beginning at #1 haha, I plan on listening to each one in order so I don't lose track and miss any Lex. I appreciate you and what you do very very much bruvv, thank you.
+41:00
“I don’t think we should try to found our self-worth on some sort of bogus claims of superiority in terms of our intelligence. I think we should instead find our calling and the meaning of life from the experiences that we have.”
+42:42
“When you and I were both two years old, our parents were much more intelligent than us, right? Worked our okay, because their goals were aligned with our goals. And that I think is really the number one issue we have to solve, value alignment.”
Deep, wise and beautiful!
Almost all Lex's tech guests are fixated on knowledge being good but often overlook the subtle manipulation of knowledge present in media throughout history and even in science that biases "truth". Dear friends, we see glaring examples from holy scriptures to social media --- Truth is typically a twisted concept that ultimately leads primates like us to violent conflict. Yann, Mark, Elon should listen to Geoff and consider how screwed up Truth has become. I'm increasingly dubious that AI will be able to help us find a peaceful path forward if the tech community doesn't become much more vigilant.
Wow Max has got to be one of the smartest people I’ve had the opportunity to hear. Thanks for publishing this Lex…
It's interesting to hear this conversation after hearing the last conversation with Max. Max's ideas and arguments, even the words he uses to answer the questions are pretty much the same today as they were back then. Also, Lex's style does not seem to have changed much at all. It really speaks to his honesty as an interviewer. Love you more every day
your channel is so good i can listen to people i would never even know lived in my world is so uneducated and im learning so much thank you
Hey Lex just thanking you for sharing and making your great videos. Your interviews and content has very high quality and humanity.
Max is one of my favorite people. What a mind.
Didn't notice any audio issues. Super interesting conversation! thank you!
Every time I hear Max Tegmark and/or Lex Friedman speak, I hear music. Thank you for your focus on engineering and how it relates to our predicament as vulnerable, feeling human beings. Powerful.
Amazing to see the evolution of your work, Lex. You've come a long way in your podcast from watching this first video and seeing how you interact today ... growth!
The birth of one of my two favorite podcasts, the other being the Joe Rogan Experience. JRE is my go to for a diverse perspective of the full spectrum of human experience, and LF is my go to for a focused deeper understanding of the human brain and psyche. as well as the future of AI and augmented technology
says sorry for audio engineering - makes absolute flawless audio quality
And the very strong, choppy noise gating.
Still, very good job on the cleanup.
Did anyone else identify "Going Under" by Evanescence?
@@nibblrrr7124 Good gating job for a non-audio-engineer.
Pretty caught up on recent episodes and wanted to come back to the beginning and explore Lex's early podcasts. Great conversation as always. 👾
We really appreciate everything you do and we love you for it. Thank you Lex! And Max Tegmark gave such a wonderful perspective to it all. It was so beautiful.
Fantastic conversation, perhaps the most valuable of the series. Thank you Lex, thank you Max.
starting here.. going to listen to every single one. Thank-you for your work Lex.
Thank you guys for this insight The experience and the memory of experiences is valuable.
i’m going to start watching Lex’s pacer from the start and watch all of them as i have missed a few and also feel like reliving those days again where i’d go on long drives after work and keep listening to the podcast everyday❤
Both Max and Lex have updated their software since this podcast took place.
@Lex Fridman great job on keeping up with Max Tegmark and maintaining the tempo of the interview! 👍
Awesome video... Max Tegmark delivers some wonderful insights... must watch content!
Brilliant interview and interviewee. Thank you.
Excellent and uplifting conversation. Thank you for sharing.
Let me add what I meant to say up front: I sought out this first Lex Fridman podcast so that I could start at the beginning of this amazing project/podcast. I'm a new but huge fan-- each episode inspires. I'm so glad to have found this podcast. Thank you, Lex- Keep being you!
this is incredible, please do more of these
Thanks Lex Fridman and MIT for uploading these fun videos, the wife and I love them.
Big love to you, Lex, bratan. This is our generation's treasure of an interview!
Wow, that was just great! Just listening to this conversation (you're a great interviewer b.t.w) gave me so many of my own little insights that I just made a bunch of notes to ponder about. Thanks!!
Amazing conversation. Thank you Max and Fred for doing this and sharing with public.
Just wow.! An amazing convo and thanks Lex.
Beautiful conversations out of the gate. Thank you for being an inspiration on so many levels, Lex. I appreciate you as a podcaster, a thinker, an expander, a lover of ideas, a young man striving to become the best you can. Much love.
What an intelligent and charismatic person Max is. Great interview. Looks like I have another book to read.
Thank you Lex, for the fantastic interview!!!
This talk was sooooo inspiring. Both of you are so inspiring. I work as a software engineer and would love to get into AI research and am currently enrolled in Andrew Ng's course and failed one of the quizes. I surely needed this kind of boost to remember why am I doing the course in the first place. Thank you so much, I have a lot of learning to do!! Thank you for these talks, we really are living in a remarkable world, when a guy from Eastern Europe can listen to people from MIT talk about these almost esoteric topics and be inspired by them so much.
THIS WAS AN INCREDIBLE INTERVIEW AND IT'S GOOD TO KNOW THAT LEX INTERVIEWED MAX TEGMARK,THANK YOU!!👍👍👍👍
Thank you so much Lex and Max for this video. There are so few people nowadays who try to understand and explain the risks of AGI in such a reasonable fashion, and can also help us see the potential and beauty of the universe. I've never considered our place in the universe like the way you talked about, and I think in the way you both explained it, I might start to understand. You guys are a real inspiration!
I like it when Tegmark brought non-human animals up in the conversation of how we treat consciousness.
I Love Max Tegmark. I really wish there was more of him on MIT OCW. There's only 1 course, and it's 15 years old.
What an inspiring and thought proving podcast, I'm glad I found this and am equally excited to see there are so many more to listen to
This was great! Thank you so much for uploading!
Thanks for publishing and sharing!
I would not have wasted the opportunity to interview this man. I get that it was most likely overwhelming. Good experience for this kid. I hope he learned a LOT.
You gotta love Max Tegmark’s positive attitude: The future holds so many opportunities! Let’s go and explore them.
What a beautiful mind. Lex you're a legend. Bringing all of these interdisciplinary great minds together in one place is fantastic. Introducing us to these minds is fantastic, I feel privilaged to live in a world where we can be stimulated by an introduction to these humans, then just go online to dig deeper - or not. Truly inspiring.
ps dont be so hard on yourself Lex, your inner warrior will hear. I, for one, love the silly questions NO ONE else asks
really loved this interview 👍
Thanks Fridman! I like both you and Max a lot! I have one question though, why was there so many cuts in this episode?
Podcast # 1
The start of the magic.
I enjoyed this conversation.
Really glad to hear from the brilliant minds. Thanks for sharing!
Max is such an interesting thinker
8:47 I’ve been saying this for so long! I’m so happy I heard someone else ask this question, “Why is consciousness restricted to a self-reflective limit?”
"I WAS TRAINED ON FIVE TERRABYTES OF DATA BEEPBEEPBOOPBOOP"
I'd be like fair point lmao
😂
Legendary, awesome to see how much you have grown over time
The past few days I’ve watched nothing but videos on AI and it’s nice to hear some positive things. I’ve pretty much prepared that it could be great, or could be the end. But the end will come no matter what, and I’m not as scared as I was. These are interesting times indeed. “The future’s uncertain and the end is always near.” If we live to see it happen either way, it’s been an honor to be on this planet and share my life with the rest of you. Not bad for some brainy chimps. Cheers to the future.
Good fortune to you too,
Hopefully we all pass the test and the future includes our species, rather than as a forgotten footnote in the universe's history. I think there is good reason to be positive on it, but we all need to try and push for the changes necessary to get there.
Sincerely,
Fellow chimp
You have a relevant and valuable attitude. We "humans" are in for an interesting time.
Best comment ever, cheers~🍻 👍
Well, as Rob Miles (he has a channel about AI, especially safety aspect) put it once - "it's a cool problem to have" :)
Love your recent podcasts lex, and the high quality guests. I wanted to see your origin in this first episode and let me say that for some reason I prefer this intro (you in a dress shirt) in a well lit room much better than your current in suit with curtains behind intros. It just seems more comfortable and like I'm in your home. Idk just my 2 cents in possibly making your intro closer to this original style. Great podcast, loved the one with Vitalik and Carlin particularly!
The ultimate positive affirmation... ❤️
Great conversation Lex
I could listen to Max all day. He will have an interesting answer no matter what you ask him.
Спасибо за видео Лекс
Only just discovered this channel, 50 hrs + incoming!
Your podcast started as an MIT Course? It's great to see how it's grown. I noticed some of the earlier podcasts don't have books listed in the description, so here's a list for this one:
Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark
LIfe 3.0 by Max Tegmark
Great convo.. Thank you
I love the dialogue about consciousness in AI. It's an important question because consciousness gives motivation. That changes the game if your AI can be motivated not artificially, by algorithms or programatically, but through a dynamic set of circumstances that will ultimately be up to the AI to determine.
Awesome! Thank you for posting these videos. You should definitely interview Eliezer Yudkowsly!
OK, I’m going to watch all of your video starting with this one… let’s go!
Most excellent interview, Max Tegmark is a genius and the kind of positive thinker we need more of. Thank you for doing this Lex. -P.S. Maybe do without the plastic bottled water next time?
i love your interviews lex, the first podcast i saw you with was elon musk, and wow it blew me away to see someone my age discussing the things i worry about with a heavy hitter like elon musk. you are so inteligent and articulate as well as unbiased, YOU HAVE ME HOOKED KIND SIR, !!! now im going back to your first podcast and i intend to watch them all. im a schizophrenic, and these world issues keep me up at night, it sucks, but when i hear things from these experts moderated by you it gives me hope in our future as a human race, thank you and keep up the good work... thanks (SERIOUSLY) Zach, midwest, usa.
Great conversation, thanks for sharing!
Loved it. Thank you.
LEX! Great shows,thank you , I really enjoy them, you and your guess are an inspiration. You are getting better and better as an interviewer I appreciate you taking your audience on the journey with you.. I have a request, could you talk about the relevance of empirical knowledge learned as compared to academically learned AI technologies. As these tools will inevitably become ubiquitous and become easier and easier to use, what disciplines are you finding most useful in leveraging AI ?
*Thanx Lex for yet another great video!* I love Max's constructive vision.
I hope to see more interviews like this with other great minds in the AI community.
Tegmark bursting into Russian made my jaw drop with surprise.
Was curious to know who Lex interviewed for his first podcast, it’s so cool to see it was Max Tegmark. For the ones saying that Lex has become more voluble in his latest podcasts, I think he was very dynamic and warm in the old ones. Nice conversation with one of the greatest minds of our time.
This is great! I am so glad that you upload these videos. I hope that you get to interview more experts in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science in the future.
Fun to come back to where it started
Beginning of a LEGEND.
Yes finally, I have found your first podcast!
Great interview. Super interesting! Keep up the good work.
This gives me hope.
Great Interview
Lex ..Max Tegmark was really on form here ..super interesting views that others may not hold but that I hope for.
I've followed Max for a while. I remember when Our Mathematical Universe came out and your podcast popped up because RUclips knew I followed Max. Now thanks to you I have a whole bunch of nerd podcasts! Love Andrew Huberman lately
Excellent!
Wow I just found out about this book and searched for it and had no idea Max had been on Lex and its his FIRST EPISODE? Huge Lex fan!
This is fantastic.
That's a great finale about squabbling over 1 mile of border vs taking a second to look away from our center of gravity here in awe.
I might be wrong, but I can see Lex is much more excited when he started this podcast or more expressive. Maybe 2020 is tiring for everyone. I hope 2021 will treat us great!
One thing that didn’t change: his genuine curiosity about life, love, intelligence, science, and humanity.
His unique personality contributed to the success of his podcast. No one can copy that. And if people say that podcast is about the guests, well, not really, it’s about the host also, the interactions could extract a different perspective from both. If I want to get deeper into a topic presented by an expert, I will read his or her publications, books, or essays.
I think podcast is about sharing and exploring interesting novel ideas that are not mainstream or popular, which I really appreciate. Sometimes the guests are perplexed by Lex’s unusual questions, but that’s also interesting and entertaining.
Some parts of the conversation are repeated in the second interview, it’s interesting to see that they are still thinking about it and hold the same conclusions.
Stay awesome, Lex! I love you 3000!
As much as I love the black background, black suit intro now, this version is also really nice.