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Scott Aaronson - The Winding Road to Quantum Supremacy

First part in an interview series with Scott Aaronson - this one is on quantum computing - future segments will be on Existential Risk, consciousness (including Scott's thoughts on IIT) and thoughts on whether the universe is discrete or continuous. See 'Complexity-Theoretic Foundations of Quantum Supremacy Experiments' https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/quantumsupre.pdf Bio : Scott Aaronson is a theoretical computer scientist and David J. Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. His primary areas of research are quantum computing and computational complexity theory. He blogs at Shtetl-Optimized: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/

Scott Aaronson - Is Reality Discrete or Continuous?

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Scott Aaronson - The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine

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Kristinn R Thórisson - The Road to 'Artificial' Understanding

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Peter Singer - The Life You Can Save

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Peter Singer - Effective Altruism, an Introduction

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Kevin Korb - Is Machine Understanding the Key to AI?

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Is 'understanding' the key to AI?  Interview with Kevin Korb @kbkorb on the phenomenon of 'understanding' and developing 'machine understanding' and #AGI - what are the necessary ingredients?  what of the 'frame problem'? #Philosophy #AI #Ethics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdkG8p0veCg&t