#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

Guillaume Verdon (aka Beff Jezos on Twitter) is a physicist, quantum computing researcher, and founder of e/acc (effective accelerationism) movement. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/guillaume-verdon-transcript

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Guillaume Verdon Twitter: https://twitter.com/GillVerd

Beff Jezos Twitter: https://twitter.com/BasedBeffJezos

Extropic: https://extropic.ai/

E/acc Blog: https://effectiveaccelerationism.substack.com/

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OUTLINE:

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(00:00) – Introduction

(09:18) – Beff Jezos

(19:16) – Thermodynamics

(25:31) – Doxxing

(35:25) – Anonymous bots

(42:53) – Power

(45:24) – AI dangers

(48:56) – Building AGI

(57:09) – Merging with AI

(1:04:51) – p(doom)

(1:20:18) – Quantum machine learning

(1:33:36) – Quantum computer

(1:42:10) – Aliens

(1:46:59) – Quantum gravity

(1:52:20) – Kardashev scale

(1:54:12) – Effective accelerationism (e/acc)

(2:04:42) – Humor and memes

(2:07:48) – Jeff Bezos

(2:14:20) – Elon Musk

(2:20:50) – Extropic

(2:29:26) – Singularity and AGI

(2:33:24) – AI doomers

(2:34:49) – Effective altruism

(2:41:18) – Day in the life

(2:47:45) – Identity

(2:50:35) – Advice for young people

(2:52:37) – Mortality

(2:56:20) – Meaning of life