Samuel Hammond on AGI and Institutional Disruption

Samuel Hammond joins the podcast to discuss how AGI will transform economies, governments, institutions, and other power structures. You can read Samuel's blog at www.secondbest.ca.
Timestamps:
00:00 Is AGI close?
06:56 Compute versus data
09:59 Information theory
20:36 Universality of learning
24:53 Hards steps in evolution
30:30 Governments and advanced AI
40:33 How will AI transform the economy?
55:26 How will AI change transaction costs?
1:00:31 Isolated thinking about AI
1:09:43 AI and Leviathan
1:13:01 Informational resolution
1:18:36 Open-source AI
1:21:24 AI will decrease state power
1:33:17 Timeline of a techno-feudalist future
1:40:28 Alignment difficulty and AI scale
1:45:19 Solving robotics
1:54:40 A constrained Leviathan
1:57:41 An Apollo Project for AI safety
2:04:29 Secure "gain-of-function" AI research
2:06:43 Is the market expecting AGI soon?

[@Sporkomat]

Great conversation! Samuel has a pretty refreshing view!

[@Shakalakahiki8]

He sounds very Canadian.
Good video for sure. I wonder if having it in multiple episodes would've been easier to digest?
Very interesting topics though and a very insightful guest.
Edit: he is, in fact, Canadian.

[@hamandchees3]

🇨🇦

[@flickwtchr]

Do you insert micro-cuts in your video edits as a stylistic expression? I don't get it. So many places where there appears to be an edit doesn't seem to make any sense. I truly enjoy your content, but sometimes the number of these cuts impedes immersion in that content as I keep noticing the cuts over the content.

[@CopperKettle]

At first glance I misread it as "Failure of Life Institute"

[@benwarnock]

Crazy how intelligence on this planet is going through one of the biggest breakthroughs in millions if not billions of years, and this has.. 2K views 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@shankar0]

95% of the world are normies. Just look at chatgpt weekly active users. 100 mil / 8ish bil