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On the Futurati Podcast, we recently released an interview with Quintin Pope. As you can imagine, it mostly focused on: * Inner v.s. outer optimization; * The sharp left turn; * Natural selection, and what kind of evidence we can draw from the emergence of the first great general intelligence;...

I recently concluded a fascinating interview with science communicator Rob Miles on the Futurati Podcast. We cover: * His background in computer science, and how he became interested in the broader AI Safety debate. * The resources he recommends for newcomers to the field. The list includes Cambridge's AI Safety...

(Cross-posted at The Futurati Podcast) After reviewing Zvi's analysis of the Future of Life Institute's open letter, I decided I wanted to have him on for a longer chat about the issue. The result is episode 130 of the Futurati Podcast, "Should we halt progress in AI?" Below, I've included...

Though I've been following the AI safety debate for a decade or so, I've had relatively few conversations with the relevant experts on the Futurati Podcast. Having updated with the release of GPT-4, however, I'm working to change that. I recently had a chance to sit down with Jeffrey Ladish...

I recently had the great pleasure of interviewing Dr. Allan McCay on the Futurati Podcast. He's a legal scholar and philosopher who focuses on questions at the interface of emerging neurotechnologies and the law, such as how privacy works when it's possible to decode mental images and mental speech from...

I recently had a fascinating conversation with Dr. Steven Hsu, theoretical physicist and serial entrepreneur, about computational genomics and genetic engineering. There were a number of really interesting takeaways which I think would be of interest to LWians. * Apparently, genetic engineering in the form of embryo selection is very...

Danica Remy is the President of the B612 Foundation, an organization dedicated to protecting Earth from asteroid impacts, and we recently interviewed her on the Futurati Podcast. She makes the provocative claim that asteroid impacts are the one major existential risk that we have a pretty good idea how to...