Sam Harris speaks with Mustafa Suleyman about his new book, “The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma.” They discuss the progress in artificial intelligence made at his company DeepMind, the acquisition of DeepMind by Google, Atari DQN, AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaFold, the invention of new knowledge, the risks of our making progress in AI, “superintelligence” as a distraction from more pressing problems, the inevitable spread of general-purpose technology, the nature of intelligence, productivity growth and labor disruptions, “the containment problem,” the importance of scale, Moore’s law, Inflection AI, open-source LLMs, changing the norms of work and leisure, the redistribution of value, introducing friction into the deployment of AI, regulatory capture, a misinformation apocalypse, digital watermarks, asymmetric threats, conflict and cooperation with China, supply-chain monopolies, and other topics.
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Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That’s why Sam Harris created the Waking Up app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life’s most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it.
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#243 — A Few Points of Confusion
#242 — Psychedelics and the Self
#241 — Final Thoughts on Free Will
#240 — The Boundaries of Self
#239 — Yet Another Call from Ricky Gervais
#238 — How to Build a Universe
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#235 — A Call from Ricky Gervais
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#233 — The Groves of Misinformation
#232 — Inequality and Revolution
#231 — Crossing the Abyss
#230 — An Insurrection of Lies
#229 — A Few Thoughts for a New Year
#228 — Doing Good
#227 — Knowing the Mind
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