About this episode
Joseph Carlsmith is a senior research analyst at Open Philanthropy and a doctoral student in philosophy at the University of Oxford . We discuss utopia, artificial intelligence, computational power of the brain , infinite ethics , learning from the fact that you exist, perils of futurism, and blogging. Watch on YouTube . Listen on Spotify , Apple Podcasts , etc. Episode website + Transcript here . Follow Joseph on Twitter . Follow me on Twitter . Subscribe to find out about future episodes! Timestamps (0:00:06) - Introduction (0:02:53) - How to Define a Better Future? (0:09:19) - Utopia (0:25:12) - Robin Hanson’s EMs (0:27:35) - Human Computational Capacity (0:34:15) - FLOPS to Emulate Human Cognition? (0:40:15) - Infinite Ethics (1:00:51) - SIA vs SSA (1:17:53) - Futurism & Unreality (1:23:36) - Blogging & Productivity (1:28:43) - Book Recommendations (1:30:04) - Conclusion Please share if you enjoyed this episode! Helps out a ton! Get full access to Dwarkesh Podcast at www.dwarkesh.com/subscribe