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 https://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?