Aleks Svetski joins the show to discuss the work he's been doing on Spirit of Satoshi, how AI models actually work based on his experience building one and whether or not AGI is an existential threat.
Aleks Svetski joins the show to discuss the work he's been doing on Spirit of Satoshi, how AI models actually work based on his experience building one, whether or not AGI is an existential threat, and the Energy edition of The Bitcoin Times, which will be released next month.
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0:00 - Intro
6:52 - Riffing
9:53 - What is Spirit of Satoshi?
18:12 - AGI
24:04 - Closed/open source AI
33:38 - Building your own language model
41:04 - AI’s opinions are based on its master
45:02 - Data cleanliness and hallucination
52:58 - 1000 minds vs the Borg
58:59 - A wealth of data
1:03:54 - Biden’s AI executive order
1:05:26 - AI agents and Bitcoin
1:12:23 - ASICs
1:16:36 - Energy
1:21:09 - Bitcoin Times Energy Edition, ESG
1:32:16 - Bitcoin is energy
1:39:29 - Conquering mindset
1:49:21 - Wrapping up
