Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #407

Lex got Beff Jezos and Jeff Bezos in the same year. 🤯

"The market will exhibit caution" - dude is living in his own reality.

Lex, I have been listening to you since your MIT lectures and I have never commented. I was about to make an appreciative comment with your Netanyahu/Palenstinian Author & poet back-to-back podcasts. But this pushed me past the line. I don’t know if you’ll ever read this, but regardless it’s my duty as a listener to let you know that I respect you, and I support your endeavor of giving EVERYONE a voice. No matter what that voice says, they have a right and a ability to say whatever they would like to say. If I ever meet you I will give you my respects, but for now I wanna say thank you for putting this content out, no matter the consequence. This is the beauty of the internet. ❤️

Here are the timestamps. Please check out our sponsors to support this podcast. 0:00 - Introduction & sponsor mentions: - 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 2:23 - Beff Jezos 12:21 - Thermodynamics 18:36 - Doxxing 28:30 - Anonymous bots 35:58 - Power 38:29 - AI dangers 42:01 - Building AGI 50:14 - Merging with AI 57:56 - p(doom) 1:13:23 - Quantum machine learning 1:26:41 - Quantum computer 1:35:15 - Aliens 1:40:04 - Quantum gravity 1:45:25 - Kardashev scale 1:47:17 - Effective accelerationism (e/acc) 1:57:47 - Humor and memes 2:00:53 - Jeff Bezos 2:07:25 - Elon Musk 2:13:55 - Extropic 2:22:31 - Singularity and AGI 2:26:29 - AI doomers 2:27:54 - Effective altruism 2:34:23 - Day in the life 2:40:50 - Identity 2:43:40 - Advice for young people 2:45:42 - Mortality 2:49:25 - Meaning of life

dang i would not have expected this interview ever. This is amazing!

Man, it always blows my mind when really smart people fall into the trap we all fall into of being so excited about the potential of something that they say things like. The market will regulate the industry.

You should invite Jonathan Oppenheim! Professor at UCL who casually merged quantum mechanics and general relativity, his papers just got published in Physics and Nature

This was the Devs Podcast we never got.

@lexfridman, interview Dan Hendrycks next, PLEASE! Beff Jezos essentially chickened out of a debate with Dan way back in Apr 2023.

1:48 it is not an accident that I spoke to Jeff bezos and beff jezos back to back 😂😂😂