Noam Chomsky: GPT-3, Neuralink, and the Limits of AI Language

Noam Chomsky joins Curt Jaimungal for a wide-ranging conversation that touches on group selection, his own mortality, the Piraha language, and a host of philosophical and technological ideas.

- 00:00:00 - Introduction
- 00:02:17 - Iain McGilchrist: Language without thought?
- 00:06:54 - Stuart Hameroff: X bar structure in microtubules
- 00:11:16 - Roger Penrose's Emperor's New Mind
- 00:11:59 - Veno Volenec: Derivational Theory of Complexity and Generative Grammar
- 00:20:02 - Existentialism and Kierkegaard [John Clever]
- 00:21:00 - Sam Harris and Islam [Naman Jain]
- 00:21:54 - Terrance McKenna and Stoned Ape Theory (psychedelics aiding language development / evolution)
- 00:22:58 - Group Selection [Slaventhefourth]
- 00:23:32 - Cryptocurrencies and decentralizing money [ThrowingSn0w]
- 00:31:35 - Elon Musk's Neuralink [Tarek]
- 00:31:56 - Douglas Hofstadter strange loop and generative grammar [Ryan]
- 00:34:25 - Peter Singer's "Drowning Child" Thought Experiment [The_platypus_king]
- 00:42:31 - Steven Pinker
- 00:43:48 - Yuval Harari's Sapiens and the origin of language as introspective [Brez]
- 00:49:50 - Piraha language and Daniel Everett [Mahendra Varma]
- 00:54:40 - Karl Friston's free energy principle [MediocreBat2]
- 00:55:03 - What does Chomsky get awestruck by? [Mai April]
- 01:03:58 - Žižek / Hegel / Heidegger [Zowhat]
- 01:06:23 - What mysteries would Chomsky want solved? [Mai April]
- 01:11:44 - Open AI and GPT-3
- 01:12:22 - Do you fear death? [Wil-Waal]
- 01:12:40 - How to be more like Chomsky? [Overboi1]

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