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18 Mar 2026
Universality = System + Relationship + Set
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11 Mar 2026
AGI = Evolution + Universality + Explanation
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4 Mar 2026
Mind Surgery: Memory & Cloning
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24 Feb 2026
Measures of Wealth, Beauty, Quality & Morality
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18 Feb 2026
The Growth of Evolutionary Power
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21 Jan 2026
Could evolution produce an F-22 Raptor?
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15 Jan 2026
Antimimetics in the 23rd Dimension
The need for diverse criteria of progress and success How neural networks and evolution avoid getting stuck in local optimaTuring completeness, Popper completeness, and other forms of universalityHuman cognitive limitations and the challenge of visualizing high dimensionsIntelligence in chaotic versus patterned universesInitializing a mind: What needs to be built-in from the start?Memory-erasing entities in stories like There Is No Antimemetics Division and Doctor WhoFatal infohazards an...
7 Jan 2026
Complexity, Abstraction, & Replication
We discuss: Process-oriented fields like economics, evolution, and epistemologyLevels of abstraction and explanation vs. interacting domains of thoughtDifferent measures of complexity - of programs, ideas, organisms, and designed objectsThe role of replication in how evolution works and how the mind works Follow me on Twitter! @dela3499 Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube, and more: https://carlos.buzzsprout.com/share
31 Dec 2025
AGI & The Blind Watchmaker
Godel, Escher, Bach & Hofstadter's focus on self-reference vs. David Deutschs focus on universalityComparing knowledge about what to do vs. what is true, and whether you should ever give adviceWhy the Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins is a good guide to AGI research Follow me on Twitter! @dela3499 Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube, and more: https://carlos.buzzsprout.com/share
24 Dec 2025
The Most Powerful Possible Mind
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19 Dec 2025
The Knowledge-Based View
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26 Jun 2024
Delphinus Sapiens: human brains in dolphin bodies
1. Dolphins. Transplant human brains into dolphin bodies. How long before they build printing presses? More generally, what matters more: our hands or our brains?
2. Set. Point. Search. Human power depends on three things: having many possibilities, good actual ideas, and the ability to find good ideas.
3. The Attention Machine. Accelerating search by focusing on what's relevant.
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21 Jun 2024
AGI = Darwin + Turing + Darwin
What makes something an AGI? What requirements should it meet?
1. Darwin. It should be able to explore many possibilities, via variation and selection.
2. Turing. It should have the widest set of possibilities and opportunities. It should be able to think anything that is thinkable. Compute anything computable.
3. Darwin. Having found a new and good idea or theory, it should be possible to use it to improve how it searches. It should be able to engage in variation and selection in new ways.
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12 Jun 2024
Progress & Knowledge
In this episode, I discuss:
1. Progress. What makes progress possible? What makes it go faster? What makes it go further?
2. Four elements of knowledge-creation. Variation, selection, attention, & knowledge.
3. The nature of knowledge. What is its role? How does it work?
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6 Jun 2024
Variation, Selection, Universality, & Attention
Howdy! I'm Carlos, and I work on artificial general intelligence. In this episode, I discuss:
My main research question: What makes human minds so powerful?
Why the Darwinian ideas of variation and selection are central to understanding how minds work.
My latest research: How do humans identify and focus on what's relevant?
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