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#130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness
Lex Fridman Podcast
Oct 12, 2020
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2 hr 57 min
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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 07:46 - Simulation 12:38 - Theories of everything 18:18 - Consciousness 40:32 - Roger Penrose on consciousness 50:44 - Turing test 54:31 - GPT-3 1:03:02 - Universality of computation 1:09:33 - Complexity 1:15:38 - P vs NP 1:27:57 - Complexity of quantum computation 1:40:03 - Pandemic 1:53:49 - Love
