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great content in essence, I must say I dislike whatever efficiency algorithm is being run to skip through the space though... big fan of natural spacing...

Excellent!

Wonderful

Burja opens with organisms themselves being the best entropy-resistant storage device. The eugenic effects of legal traditions are unexplored for obvious reasons in the current cultural climate. Universities were founded as places of Christian worship, centred around the belief that there is a single mind giving order to reality and to be in harmony with that order, the minds will, one must bring their mind, body and soul into alignment, otherwise knowledge will not be revealed and that which has already been revealed will be abused and/or degenerate. The assumption that this singular mind does not lie, and is purely good, is also foundational for the development of such an intellectual tradition otherwise the observable energy abundance created will be siphoned off to be exploited and corrupted in pursuit of sin, engaged in on the basis the mind can lie (just as ours can), is in some way unjust (just as we are), is non-existant (as we once were) or is one of many reality defining beings whose favour can earned in a transactional, sacrificial or servile sense (just as we interact with each other).

Best interview I've watched all year. Not just from you, all of CZcams.

Love your conversation! Also, the topic of plastic-disolving enzymes (catalysed by the ML revolution) could be interessting for Wes and his business. How great would it be if a plastic manufacturer gets behind that and drives this innovation.

That was really good

I love samo, great episode 🎉

This was great :) Could you interview someone who is doing something really interesting in the field of collaborative sensemaking and collective intelligence? For example genAI systems in creative dialogue, with many human curators in the loop, to gradually build new ideas, concepts and insights as an open source research project? Surely someone must be working on something like that, since this would seem like the most realistic path towards keeping alive at least some cultural intelligence and creativity within the commons. If a technology like LLMs, so clearly a child of the intellectual commons, where not also used creatively by the commons, this would seem like an unbelievable tragedy. I am sure someone is working on this, and if you know anyone, please help bring some more attention to it!

I know it’s annoying that Coca Cola broke his record. But aren’t these guys also huge donors of ocean cleanup.

I love that he shit all over Jack Welch.

My criticism is coming first, don’t let it discourage… Reciprocity is an excuse children make before they understand how weak and feeble it is. Its reflexive use, to defend yet another argument for authoritarian censorship, is embarrassing and doesn’t stand up to all but the most shallow consideration. We seem to be embracing the hypocrisy and egotistical behavior previously left to the shadows of Western foreign policy. I suppose it’s rather on point for this interview, highlighting the degradation of reason but also the kind of Moloch mentality Liv often exposes. That out of the way, great guest, I appreciate his ability to cut through all the power center narratives to construct a more meaningful understanding of the past and present.

Bro these youtube short are just TikTok.

Good stuff, thanks.

Liv, you are simply amazing!

Congrats on 100k subs! Another great Win-Win episode!

Amazing interview! Thanks :)

I dont really understand OpenAI the point here. People being mad that a board acted against a CEO succeeding in all metrics is not the same thing as people being unable to comprehend a board doing anything. You can be mad when a good employee gets fired and still think that an important part of a bosses job is firing the under performers. Unless I am missing something, you would want to find evidence of people getting mad at a board doing a good job and ousting a under performing CEO for evidence to backup the idea that boards are not capable of governing CEOs any longer.

What is this "gwern,net" samo is talking about at 1:17:17?

A problem with Peer Review is.....What if you have no Peers. Think about it and its ramifications :-D

That explains why one of my last videos got a ton of hits for no reason... Tell you what TikTok you keep the fame, I'll keep the money 🙄

long live iron maiden shes the queen

Based Samo!

An excellent fireside chat with Samo Burja. One of the few content full and thought provoking video on youtube!

Good questions, really. And very interesting guest! Thank you both.

I'm nine minutes in. About an hour, I read an article on two recent incidents of major turbulence on Boeing airliners that made climate change the culprit without ever mentioning the deteriorating safety and quality standards following its merger with a weapons manufacturer. I bet we'll be hearing a lot more of this in the near future and may see this world without (commercial) air travel before very long.

Awesome podcast. Thank you both 🙏🙏

Not boycotting palm oil? Ok, easy way to dismiss everything else that was said, thanks.

Interesting discussion, just wanted to drop a comment -- as someone who stumbled on this podcast / video series just now, who is the other guy? I went back to the start and realized i hadn't heard him introduced him as "occasional cohost, Igor" , but it seems kinda weird there's no mention of him in the show notes or credits -- i thought he was a good addition and appreciated the third voice in the conversation, but as someone not familiar with the show, would loved a little more context (or maybe he's actually a super advanced ai assistant that Liv has dubbed "Igor"? haha) Thanks to all three of you guys for the thought-provoking episode, looking forward to checking out more

found it super interesting how he descibred our elites as senescent, parasitical, and non agentive. this is very similar how henry george describes late empires when the lower class are unambitious, because they do not have fair access to land and the upper class is only concerned with maintaining their land monopoly and not actually producing.

brilliant

Wow, a pleasure of listening to smart people having a healthy discussion.

Very interesting interview. I'm always listen with great interest to Samo's perspectives which are always so well grounded in his deep and broad grasp of history and the implications. He'd make a great guest for Lex. Cheers.

Samo is such a gifted speaker. His point at 1:38:53 is amazingly put.

Definitely seen the part of writing papers in quantity being the objective rather than advancing the science, including people scheming how many separate papers they could squeeze out of one topic rather than writing one concise report of all its aspects.

enjoyed it, thank you both!

Excellent presentation.

Who made the background music to your intro? It's absolutely lit.

OMG I love the intro/outro vibe/music! Also Samo is so inspiring!

"Maybe in our quest to make knowledge legible too early, we sometimes destroy what makes it viable." Holy fuck why did no one tell me advisors this.

Epic.

Another very excellent topic of discussion and guest.

Real talk, in profiling and deception detection they always say the lie starts in the feet and works it's way up.

Loved his hot take of us already living in a pseudo UBI system! Had me picturing hamster wheels as far as the eye could see :)

Back in my university days, a biochemical engineer invited programmers to help him write software for his PhD. He was focused on improving the small details of an anesthetic drug. The impact of his research was so minimal that it was clear he was just trying to publish papers and climb the academic ladder. Our institutions have become absurd.

This was a great episode, Liv!!! very insightful!! Thanks so much to both of you for all that you do!!!!