Carlos De la Guardia

AGI with Carlos

Science EN ↓ 16 episodes

What makes human minds uniquely powerful? How do we create such minds?

Author

Carlos De la Guardia

Episodes

Episode 12 22.04.2026 1:32:57

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Universality = System + Relationship + Set 18.03.2026 1:03:54

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AGI = Evolution + Universality + Explanation 11.03.2026 1:52:34

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Mind Surgery: Memory & Cloning 04.03.2026 1:54:05

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Measures of Wealth, Beauty, Quality & Morality 24.02.2026 1:45:24

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The Growth of Evolutionary Power 18.02.2026 2:00:11

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Could evolution produce an F-22 Raptor? 21.01.2026 1:29:09

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Antimimetics in the 23rd Dimension 15.01.2026 1:33:34

The need for diverse criteria of progress and success How neural networks and evolution avoid getting stuck in local optima Turing completeness, Popper completeness, and other forms of universality Human cognitive limitations and the challenge of visualizing high dimensions Intelligence in chaotic versus patterned universes Initializing a mind: What needs to be built-in from the start? Memory-era...

Complexity, Abstraction, & Replication 07.01.2026 1:39:23

We discuss: Process-oriented fields like economics, evolution, and epistemology Levels of abstraction and explanation vs. interacting domains of thought Different measures of complexity - of programs, ideas, organisms, and designed objects The role of replication in how evolution works and how the mind works Follow me on Twitter! @dela3499 Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube, and more: htt...

AGI & The Blind Watchmaker 31.12.2025 1:25:07

Godel, Escher, Bach & Hofstadter's focus on self-reference vs. David Deutschs focus on universality Comparing knowledge about what to do vs. what is true, and whether you should ever give advice Why the Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins is a good guide to AGI research Follow me on Twitter! @dela3499 Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube, and more: https://carlos.buzzsprout.com/sha...

The Most Powerful Possible Mind 24.12.2025 1:18:50

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The Knowledge-Based View 19.12.2025 1:34:38

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Delphinus Sapiens: human brains in dolphin bodies 26.06.2024 27:55

1. Dolphins. Transplant human brains into dolphin bodies. How long before they build printing presses? More generally, what matters more: our hands or our brains? 2. Set. Point. Search. Human power depends on three things: having many possibilities, good actual ideas, and the ability to find good ideas. 3. The Attention Machine. Accelerating search by focusing on what's relevant. Follow me o...

AGI = Darwin + Turing + Darwin 21.06.2024 25:52

What makes something an AGI? What requirements should it meet? 1. Darwin. It should be able to explore many possibilities, via variation and selection. 2. Turing. It should have the widest set of possibilities and opportunities. It should be able to think anything that is thinkable. Compute anything computable. 3. Darwin. Having found a new and good idea or theory, it should be possible to use i...

Progress & Knowledge 12.06.2024 25:41

In this episode, I discuss: 1. Progress. What makes progress possible? What makes it go faster? What makes it go further? 2. Four elements of knowledge-creation. Variation, selection, attention, & knowledge. 3. The nature of knowledge. What is its role? How does it work? Follow me on Twitter! @dela3499 Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube, and more: https://carlos.buzzsprout.com/share

Variation, Selection, Universality, & Attention 06.06.2024 28:09

Howdy! I'm Carlos, and I work on artificial general intelligence. In this episode, I discuss: My main research question: What makes human minds so powerful? Why the Darwinian ideas of variation and selection are central to understanding how minds work. My latest research: How do humans identify and focus on what's relevant? Follow me on Twitter! @dela3499 Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spoti...