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Science writer John Horgan discusses AI, consciousness, solipsism, intellectual humility, the fermi paradox and his new book 'Pay Attention: Sex, Death & Science' - which I found myself enjoying a lot.Book: https://www.amazon.com.au/Pay-Attention-Sex-Death-Science/dp/1949597091
01:08 Science Communication & the information deficit explanation of public hostility / skepticism towards science
05:11 The tension between sober-mindedness in science and the need to translate science to the public in an engaging way. Hype and exaggeration in science.
08:40 The End of Science - has science reached an era of diminishing returns?
11:13 Is it possible for science to describe things like the abiogenesis of life on earth or consciousness?
15:34 Evidence of fossilized microbes from mars?
17:44 The Great Filter? Why can’t we see any evidence of other galactic expansionist alien civs?
20:50 Humans seeming need to fill in the gaps with mystical or highly speculative explanations. Epistemic humility.
25:17 Covering an AI Ethics conference
30:22 Can we automate ethics?
32:05 The term singularity
35:15 Basic AI Drives
36:33 What would SI do once it had enough resources?
40:20: Progress in AI. Was part of the reason for an AI winter the focus on symbolic AI? AI as a project to understand ourselves.
47:09 Do we need sentient machines to achieve highly capable machines?
49:08 Can consciousness be measured? Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and panpsychism.
53:20 Solipsism and epistemic humility
57:24 The Hogan sisters and split brain experiments
01:03:01 John Horgan questions his own ‘End of Science’ thesis
01:01:12 Perhaps we need some kind of machine cognition to make certain kinds of progress in science. Denis Overby thinks AI will make progress with a grand unified theory.
01:01:53 AlphaFold - protein folding prediction
01:03:28 AI as a black box - extraordinarily powerful opaque AIs & the replication crisis in AI
01:07:44 Pay Attention: Sex, Death, and Science
01:09:43 A book on the horizon on quantum mechanics
About John Horgan: http://www.johnhorgan.orghttps://twitter.com/Horganismhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horgan_(journalist)Articles by John Horgan: scientificamerican.com/author/john-horgan7/blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/seeing-the-miracle-of-existence-in-the-darkest-of-times/blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/donald-trump-and-the-problem-of-evil/blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/what-would-a-machine-as-smart-as-god-want/blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/dear-anti-trump-protestors-please-renounce-violence
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Science writer John Horgan discusses AI, consciousness, solipsism, intellectual humility, the fermi paradox and his new book 'Pay Attention: Sex, Death & Science' - which I found myself enjoying a lot.Book: https://www.amazon.com.au/Pay-Attention-Sex-Death-Science/dp/1949597091
01:08 Science Communication & the information deficit explanation of public hostility / skepticism towards science
05:11 The tension between sober-mindedness in science and the need to translate science to the public in an engaging way. Hype and exaggeration in science.
08:40 The End of Science - has science reached an era of diminishing returns?
11:13 Is it possible for science to describe things like the abiogenesis of life on earth or consciousness?
15:34 Evidence of fossilized microbes from mars?
17:44 The Great Filter? Why can’t we see any evidence of other galactic expansionist alien civs?
20:50 Humans seeming need to fill in the gaps with mystical or highly speculative explanations. Epistemic humility.
25:17 Covering an AI Ethics conference
30:22 Can we automate ethics?
32:05 The term singularity
35:15 Basic AI Drives
36:33 What would SI do once it had enough resources?
40:20: Progress in AI. Was part of the reason for an AI winter the focus on symbolic AI? AI as a project to understand ourselves.
47:09 Do we need sentient machines to achieve highly capable machines?
49:08 Can consciousness be measured? Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and panpsychism.
53:20 Solipsism and epistemic humility
57:24 The Hogan sisters and split brain experiments
01:03:01 John Horgan questions his own ‘End of Science’ thesis
01:01:12 Perhaps we need some kind of machine cognition to make certain kinds of progress in science. Denis Overby thinks AI will make progress with a grand unified theory.
01:01:53 AlphaFold - protein folding prediction
01:03:28 AI as a black box - extraordinarily powerful opaque AIs & the replication crisis in AI
01:07:44 Pay Attention: Sex, Death, and Science
01:09:43 A book on the horizon on quantum mechanics
About John Horgan: http://www.johnhorgan.orghttps://twitter.com/Horganismhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horgan_(journalist)Articles by John Horgan: scientificamerican.com/author/john-horgan7/blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/seeing-the-miracle-of-existence-in-the-darkest-of-times/blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/donald-trump-and-the-problem-of-evil/blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/what-would-a-machine-as-smart-as-god-want/blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/dear-anti-trump-protestors-please-renounce-violence
#TheEndOfScience #PayAttention #AI
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c) Sharing the media SciFuture creates
Kind regards,
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