Scott Aaronson on Quantum Computing & Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #130 🤖

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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
3:31 - Simulation
8:22 - Theories of everything
14:02 - Consciousness
36:16 - Roger Penrose on consciousness
46:28 - Turing test
50:16 - GPT-3
58:46 - Universality of computation
1:05:17 - Complexity
1:11:23 - P vs NP
1:23:41 - Complexity of quantum computation
1:35:48 - Pandemic
1:49:33 - Love

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