This is a lively, no-holds-barred debate about whether AI can truly be intelligent, conscious, or understand anything at all — and what happens when (or if) machines become smarter than us.
Dr. Mike Israetel is a sports scientist, entrepreneur, and co-founder of RP Strength (a fitness company). He describes himself as a "dilettante" in AI but brings a fascinating outsider's perspective.
Jared Feather (IFBB Pro bodybuilder and exercise physiologist)
The Big Questions:
1. When is superintelligence coming?
2. Does AI actually understand anything?
3. The Simulation Debate (The Spiciest Part)
4. Will AI kill us all? (The Doomer Debate)
5. What happens to human jobs and purpose?
6. Do we need suffering?
Mikes channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfQgsKhHjSyRLOp9mnffqVg
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TIMESTAMPS:
Introduction & Workout Demo
ASI Timelines & Definitions
The Embodiment Debate
Neutrinos & Abstract Knowledge
Can AI Learn From YouTube?
Diversity of Intelligence
AI Slop & Understanding
The Simulation Argument: Fire & Water
Consciousness & Zombies
Do Reasoning Models Actually Reason?
The Live Learning Problem
Superintelligence & Benevolence
What is True Agency?
Game Theory & The "Kill All Humans" Fallacy
Regulation & The China Factor
Mind Uploading & The Future of Love
Economics of ASI: Will We Be Useless?
The Matrix & The Value of Suffering
Transhumanism & Inequality
Debrief: AI Medical Advice & Final Thoughts
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REFERENCES:
Paper:
[] Alchemy and Artificial Intelligence (Dreyfus)
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2006/P3244.pdf
[] The Chinese Room Argument (John Searle)
https://home.csulb.edu/~cwallis/382/readings/482/searle.minds.brains.programs.bbs.1980.pdf
[] The Symbol Grounding Problem (Stephen Harnad)
https://arxiv.org/html/cs/9906002
[] Attention Is All You Need
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
[] GPT-4 Technical Report
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08774
[] Anthropic Agentic Misalignment Paper
https://www.anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignment
[] Retatrutide
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37366315/
Organization:
[] CERN
[] METR Long Horizon Evaluations
MLST Episode:
[] MLST: Llion Jones - Inventors' Remorse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtePicx_kFY
[] MLST: Blaise Agüera y Arcas Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMSEqJ_4EBk
[] MLST: David Krakauer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY46YsGWMIc
Event:
[] ARC Prize/Challenge
Book:
[] The Brain Abstracted
https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Abstracted-Simplification-Philosophy-Neuroscience/dp/0262548046
[] Pamela McCorduck
https://www.amazon.com/Machines-Who-Think-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/1568812051
[] The Singularity Is Nearer (Ray Kurzweil)
https://www.amazon.com/Singularity-Nearer-Ray-Kurzweil-ebook/dp/B08Y6FYJVY
[] A Fire Upon The Deep (Vernor Vinge)
https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Upon-Deep-S-F-MASTERWORKS-ebook/dp/B00AVUMIZE/
[] Deep Utopia (Nick Bostrom)
https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Utopia-Meaning-Solved-World/dp/1646871642
[] Technofeudalism (Yanis Varoufakis)
https://www.amazon.com/Technofeudalism-Killed-Capitalism-Yanis-Varoufakis/dp/1685891241
Visual Context Needed:
[] AT-AT Walker (Star Wars)
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/All_Terrain_Armored_Transport
Person:
[] Andrej Karpathy
Video:
[] Mike Israetel vs Liron Shapira AI Doom Debate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaDWSPMdM4o
Company:
[] Examine.com
