Lecture: Fermi Paradox, AI, Simulation Question

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Steve discusses DNA and the origin of life on Earth, the Fermi Paradox (is there alien life?), AI and its implications for the Simulation Question: could our universe be a simulation? Are we machines, but don't know it?
Slides: docs.google.co...
Further discussion of the Simulation Question in light of AGI, and a refinement from quantum mechanics: The Quantum Simulation Question: infoproc.blogs...
CORRECTION: 31:25 The size of our galaxy is not 100 million light years. I should have said ~100 THOUSAND = 100k light years instead!!!
Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.
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Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (SuperFocus.ai, SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU.
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@MitchelHumpherys 6 ай бұрын

Insanely interesting topic. I recently found you through Hidden Forces. Your podcast is a treasure trove of intellectually stimulating content. I feel like I'm auditing a university course, for free, from my own home, which is just amazing. Thank you.

@AudiobooksDimension 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for interesting lecture.

@Nia-zq5jl 6 ай бұрын

Doesn’t natural selection technically always have to act on existing variation? Any new mutations technically has to exist as a variant/variation in a population before selection, right?

@StephenHsu 6 ай бұрын

Yes, that's correct. The distinction here is between rare (in an extreme case, de novo mutation) and common variants (already present in the population but with varying allele frequencies). Some discussions of evolution / natural selection focus on mutations, but the most rapid response to selection (cf polygenic traits) is typically changes in allele frequencies.