03 January 2022
Joscha Bach @plinz AI researcher on religion, autism, sci-fi books and parenting. - E171
Joscha Bach is a rare mind. He is an artificial intelligence researcher that is sought out by people doing research to understand how the human mind works.
He sat down with Vance Crowe for a second time to discuss if our world is in a more precarious place than in the past. Bach discusses what happens if a parent chooses not to download a religious software onto their child.
Joscha Bach mention's Paul Graham's blog post. "Lies we tell kids." http://www.paulgraham.com/lies.html
They discuss the growing phenomenon of young women getting interested in astrology.
Bach then discusses the increase in autism and some of the causes of the increases (changes to food, estrogen in the water) of a neural disorders that only occasionally creates a super power in high IQ individuals. Bach then gives an exceptional book review about three sci-fi novels: Dune, Foundation and The Three Body Problem.
They close out answering the question "how does Joscha Bach think about parenting.
Joscha is an excellent Twitter follow @plinz
A link to the first interview between Vance Crowe and Joscha Bach (@plinz) on predicting COVID long before others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNDj0YN1SH4
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