21. LIFE (w/ Blaise Agüera y Arcas)
Blaise Agüera y Arcas is one of most important people in AI, and apart from his leadership position as CTO of Technology & Society at Google, he has one of those resumes or affiliations lists that seems to span a lot of very fundamental things. He’s amazing; the thoughtfulness and generosity with which he communicates on this episode gently embraced our brains while lazering them to mush. We hope you have the same experience.
References include:
Blaise’s own books Who Are We Now?, Ubi Sunt, and the upcoming What Is Intelligence?
He references James C. Scott’s Seeing Like a State, which we…
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