Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101

Why HN readers recommended it

Praised as a long but rewarding conversation, with commenters especially liking Bach's emphasis on modelling as a skill and his bridge between mind and computation.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Lex Fridman

Topic

artificial consciousness

Format

podcast

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

6

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2021

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From the original HN conversations

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• You might be interested in watching this: [VIDEO] If watching this isn't worth anyone's time, I'm not sure what would be.

• I really love his emphasis on modelling as a skill. Its obviously great applied to technical skills like computer science, but he seems to apply it to everything else in the human experience so well. "everything that we sense is part of the same object …

• The best I've seen the topic of mind and computation bridged and well communicated has been by Joscha Bach. Recommend watching this video on Computational Meta-Psychology [1]. Also his 3 hour conversation with Lex Fridman is a whole other amazing rabbit hole [2]. [1] [LINK] …