The Dorx are back with esteemed German cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher Joscha Bach, who…what does he do exactly? He tries to tell us but soon is discussing the unlikelihood AI will destroy humanity (humanity is likelier to destroy itself), “human values”, the paucity of adults, superstitious thinking, lack of consciousness, unreality, mutants, fatherhood, art, craft, God, gods, ethics, Aristotle, innocence, gender, the obvious, sacrifice, and using AI as your life’s CEO. Is the self a fiction? How much art do we really need? Are all Miyazake movies really about Heidi? And so much more!
We let Riverside’s own AI edit this episode, and it’s full of artifacts as a result. Consider it meta-commentary on this fascinating human conversation.
Links:
Joscha Bach’s website: http://bach.ai/
Joscha Bach’s Substack: https://joscha.substack.com/
Joscha Bach on X: https://x.com/Plinz
California Institute for Machine Consciousness: https://cimc.ai/