@dwarkesh_sp - New episode w Adam Brown, a lead of Blueshift at DeepMind &
Dwarkesh Patel✓@dwarkesh_sp
2024-12-26New episode w Adam Brown, a lead of Blueshift at DeepMind & theoretical physicist at Stanford.
Stupefying, terrifying, & absolutely fascinating.
On destroying the light cone with vacuum decay, mining black holes, holographic principle,
& path to LLMs which make Einsteinian conceptual breakthroughs.
Enjoy! Links below.
0:00:00 - Changing the laws of physics
0:26:53 - Why our universe is the way it is
0:38:18 - Making Einstein level AGI
1:01:19 - Physics stagnation & particle colliders
1:11:58 - Hitchhiking
1:29:48 - Nagasaki
1:37:07 - Adam’s career
1:44:13 - Mining black holes
2:00:30 - Holographic principle
2:24:13 - Infinities
2:32:30 - Engineering constraints for future civilizations