#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: – LMNT : https://drinkLMNT.com/lex to get free sample pack – Notion : https://notion.com/lex – InsideTracker : https://insidetracker.com/lex to get 20% off – AG1 : https://drinkag1.com/lex to get 1 month supply of fish oil Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/guillaume-verdon-transcript EPISODE LINKS: 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/ PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/lexfridman YouTube Clips: https://youtube.com/lexclips SUPPORT & CONNECT: – Check out the sponsors above, it’s the best way to support this podcast – Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman – Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman – Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman – LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman – Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman – Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman OUTLINE: Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. (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