AGI with Carlos
Carlos De la Guardia
What makes human minds uniquely powerful? How do we create such minds?
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Dec 19, 2025 • 1h 35min
The Knowledge-Based View
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Jun 26, 2024 • 28min
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.Follow me on Twitter! @dela3499Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube, and more: https://carlos.buzzsprout.com/share
Jun 21, 2024 • 26min
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.Follow me on Twitter! @dela3499Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube, and more: https://carlos.buzzsprout.com/share
Jun 12, 2024 • 26min
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?Follow me on Twitter! @dela3499Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube, and more: https://carlos.buzzsprout.com/share
Jun 6, 2024 • 28min
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?Follow me on Twitter! @dela3499Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube, and more: https://carlos.buzzsprout.com/share
