Theo Jaffee Podcast

#1: Greg Fodor - AI, knowledge acceleration, aliens, & VR


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Greg Fodor is a software engineer who’s been involved in augmented and virtual reality for over a decade. He co-founded Altspace VR, a virtual events company acquired by Microsoft, worked on Mozilla Hubs, a browser-based VR community platform; built Jel, a virtual environment video game for working, and is currently working on a new extended reality hardware stealth startup. On his Twitter account, @gfodor, he tweets about AI, VR and AR, unidentified aerial phenomena, aliens, and the philosophy of knowledge.

CHAPTERS:
(00:00) - Intro
(00:46) - Superconductors
(03:51) - The Turing test
(16:21) - AI risks, alignment, and knowledge acceleration
(33:22) - What is alignment?
(46:50) - AI doom
(58:01) - e/acc
(1:16:28) - UAPs and aliens
(1:32:05) - Risks from aliens
(1:43:11) - Alien zoo hypothesis
(1:50:50) - Virtual reality
(2:05:37) - The future of VR
(2:17:38) - Greg’s Intellectual Journey
(2:26:15) - Outro

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