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Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101

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What it is

Lex Fridman has a three-hour conversation with Joscha Bach about artificial consciousness, the workings of the mind, intelligence and the possibly simulated nature of reality.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Praised as a long but rewarding conversation, with commenters especially liking Bach's emphasis on modelling as a skill and his bridge between mind and computation.

  • 6 people recommended it
  • 5 different months
  • 4 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “If watching this isn't worth anyone's time, I'm not sure what would be.”

    Joscha Bach conversation worth watching

    reciprocity, 2020-06 · Strong recommendation · in “Emotional Blocks as Obstacles to Learning”

  2. “I really love his emphasis on modelling as a skill.”

    Bach on modelling as a skill applied to all experience

    alexshortt, 2020-07 · Strong recommendation · in “Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality [video]”

  3. “Also his 3 hour conversation with Lex Fridman is a whole other amazing rabbit hole [2].”

    Joscha Bach bridges mind and computation

    miketery, 2020-09 · Strong recommendation · in “Mind Emulation Foundation”

  4. “His first interview with him was also my favorite podcast episode of 2020.”

    Favorite podcast episode of 2020, better in video form

    meowface, 2021-12 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2021?”

  5. “it was pretty good. It's a bit long but worthwhile.”

    Philosophy of machine learning, models of thinking and consciousness

    memexy, 2020-06 · Recommendation · in “Joscha Bach: Do we live in a simulation or in the base reality?”

  6. “Joscha Bach laid out a few interesting ideas around this at the end of a podcast.”

    Bach lays out ideas near the end of the podcast

    jcims, 2020-10 · Recommendation · in “Aliens on 1k nearby stars could see us, new study suggests”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: joscha bach, consciousness, artificial intelligence, simulation, philosophy of mind

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