Lex Fridman Podcast: #130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness

Scott Aaronson is a quantum computer scientist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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OUTLINE:

Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.

00:00 – Introduction

07:46 – Simulation

12:38 – Theories of everything

18:18 – Consciousness

40:32 – Roger Penrose on consciousness

50:44 – Turing test

54:31 – GPT-3

1:03:02 – Universality of computation

1:09:33 – Complexity

1:15:38 – P vs NP

1:27:57 – Complexity of quantum computation

1:40:03 – Pandemic

1:53:49 – Love