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Guillaume Verdon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1026 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

And so we created this movement to bring balance.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

And so we created this movement to bring balance.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

thinking of culture almost like code, right? Nowadays, I mean, what you prompt the LLM or what you put in the constitution of an LLM is basically its cultural framework, what it believes, right? And you can share it on GitHub nowadays. So starting trying to take inspiration from what has worked in this sort of machine of to adapt over the space of code, could we apply that to culture?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

thinking of culture almost like code, right? Nowadays, I mean, what you prompt the LLM or what you put in the constitution of an LLM is basically its cultural framework, what it believes, right? And you can share it on GitHub nowadays. So starting trying to take inspiration from what has worked in this sort of machine of to adapt over the space of code, could we apply that to culture?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

thinking of culture almost like code, right? Nowadays, I mean, what you prompt the LLM or what you put in the constitution of an LLM is basically its cultural framework, what it believes, right? And you can share it on GitHub nowadays. So starting trying to take inspiration from what has worked in this sort of machine of to adapt over the space of code, could we apply that to culture?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

And our goal is to not say you should live your life this way, X, Y, Z. It's to set up a process where people are always searching over subcultures and competing for mindshare. And I think creating this malleability of culture is super important for us to converge onto the cultures and the heuristics about how to live one's life that are updated to modern times.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

And our goal is to not say you should live your life this way, X, Y, Z. It's to set up a process where people are always searching over subcultures and competing for mindshare. And I think creating this malleability of culture is super important for us to converge onto the cultures and the heuristics about how to live one's life that are updated to modern times.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

And our goal is to not say you should live your life this way, X, Y, Z. It's to set up a process where people are always searching over subcultures and competing for mindshare. And I think creating this malleability of culture is super important for us to converge onto the cultures and the heuristics about how to live one's life that are updated to modern times.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

Because there's really been a sort of vacuum of spirituality and culture. People don't feel like they belong to any one group. And there's been parasitic ideologies that have taken up opportunity to populate this petri dish of minds, right? Elon calls it the mind virus. We call it the D-cell mind virus complex, which is the decelerative that is kind of the overall pattern between all of them.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

Because there's really been a sort of vacuum of spirituality and culture. People don't feel like they belong to any one group. And there's been parasitic ideologies that have taken up opportunity to populate this petri dish of minds, right? Elon calls it the mind virus. We call it the D-cell mind virus complex, which is the decelerative that is kind of the overall pattern between all of them.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

Because there's really been a sort of vacuum of spirituality and culture. People don't feel like they belong to any one group. And there's been parasitic ideologies that have taken up opportunity to populate this petri dish of minds, right? Elon calls it the mind virus. We call it the D-cell mind virus complex, which is the decelerative that is kind of the overall pattern between all of them.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

There's many variants as well. And so, You know, if there's a sort of viral pessimism, decelerative movement, we needed to have not only one movement, but, you know, many, many variants. So it's very hard to pinpoint and stop.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

There's many variants as well. And so, You know, if there's a sort of viral pessimism, decelerative movement, we needed to have not only one movement, but, you know, many, many variants. So it's very hard to pinpoint and stop.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

There's many variants as well. And so, You know, if there's a sort of viral pessimism, decelerative movement, we needed to have not only one movement, but, you know, many, many variants. So it's very hard to pinpoint and stop.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

Well, first of all, it's fun. It's rebellious, right? Like, you know, many, I think we lean into, there's this concept of sort of meta-irony, right? Of sort of being on the boundary of like, we're not sure if they're serious or not. And it's much more playful and much more fun, right? Like, for example, we talk about thermodynamics being our god. Mm-hmm. Right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

Well, first of all, it's fun. It's rebellious, right? Like, you know, many, I think we lean into, there's this concept of sort of meta-irony, right? Of sort of being on the boundary of like, we're not sure if they're serious or not. And it's much more playful and much more fun, right? Like, for example, we talk about thermodynamics being our god. Mm-hmm. Right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

Well, first of all, it's fun. It's rebellious, right? Like, you know, many, I think we lean into, there's this concept of sort of meta-irony, right? Of sort of being on the boundary of like, we're not sure if they're serious or not. And it's much more playful and much more fun, right? Like, for example, we talk about thermodynamics being our god. Mm-hmm. Right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

And sometimes we do cult like things, but there's no like ceremony and robes and whatnot. Not yet. Not yet. But ultimately, yeah, I mean, I totally agree that. It seems to me that humans wanna feel like they're part of a group. So they naturally try to agree with their neighbors and find common ground. And that leads to sort of mode collapse in the space of ideas, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

And sometimes we do cult like things, but there's no like ceremony and robes and whatnot. Not yet. Not yet. But ultimately, yeah, I mean, I totally agree that. It seems to me that humans wanna feel like they're part of a group. So they naturally try to agree with their neighbors and find common ground. And that leads to sort of mode collapse in the space of ideas, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

And sometimes we do cult like things, but there's no like ceremony and robes and whatnot. Not yet. Not yet. But ultimately, yeah, I mean, I totally agree that. It seems to me that humans wanna feel like they're part of a group. So they naturally try to agree with their neighbors and find common ground. And that leads to sort of mode collapse in the space of ideas, right?