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Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #212

Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #212

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Princess Mononoke

Hayao Miyazaki

“there is nobody who captures my spirituality as well as he does”
“when i watch the miyazaki movies that there is nobody who captures my spirituality as well as he does”— Joscha Bach

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Westworld

HBO (inferred)

“this notion of a person is a fiction similar as it is in westworld where the robots realize that their memories and desires are just stuff”— Joscha Bach
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Bethesda (inferred)

“every time you start thinking about skyrim and elder scrolls and walking around in beautiful nature and swinging a sword”— Lex Fridman
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The Road to Reality

Roger Penrose

“when I read for instance the section that he writes in the introduction to and wrote to infinity the thing that he specifically refers to”— Joscha Bach
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GPT-3

OpenAI

“what are your thoughts about gpt3 and language models trained with self-supervised learning”— Lex Fridman
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Wolfram Mathematica

Wolfram Research (inferred)

“it was able to learn how to do differentiation integration in race that according to the authors mathematica could not”— Joscha Bach
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GitHub Copilot

GitHub

“if you look at github open pilot which is based on openai's codex it's the system that's able to generate code”— Lex Fridman
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OpenAI Codex

OpenAI

“if you look at github open pilot which is based on openai's codex i don't know if you got a chance to look at it”— Lex Fridman