Joscha: Computational Meta-Psychology
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as one of the best bridges between mind and computation, and as a sample of Bach's thinking on AI and philosophy.
What it is
Joscha Bach's 32C3 talk applies computational theories of mind to questions of meaning, emotion, and love, asking how computation can explain irrational-seeming human experience.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2018 to 2020.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec miketery · 2020-09 · on “Mind Emulation Foundation”
The best I've seen the topic of mind and computation bridged and well communicated has been by Joscha Bach. Recommend watching this video on Computational Meta-Psychology [1]. Also his 3 hour conversation with Lex Fridman is a whole other amazing rabbit hole [2]. [1] [this video] [2] [LINK]
Recommends maze-le · 2020-07 · on “Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality [video]”
He is definitely one of the most interesting people to listen to when it comes to AI, Intelligence and Philosophy. I've seen him in Leipzig on CCC events in the past, here are some of his other talks: * Computational Meta-Intelligence (32C3): [this video] * Machine Dreams (33C3): [LINK] * The Ghost in the Machine (35C3): [LINK] He also did a very interesting podcast episode with Fefe and Frank from alternativlos! (in German): [LINK]
Cites freeflight · 2018-01 · on “Can staying awake beat depression?”
> In general I'd say the best tactic is to learn as much as you can yourself (while remembering to be honest with yourself) and pursue general purpose coping strategies across the board (for example, mindfulness based cognitive therapy). Yup, that's exactly what I've been doing for years now. I've read through quite a bit of stuff ranging from Freud, Jung, B.F. Skinner to Edward de Bono and countless others in addition to lots of Wikipedia surfing and study reading. A rather common theme among a lot of them: Many of them went into studying psychology as an attempt to diagnose their own issues and often it feels more like reading philosophy rather than actual medical science. I wonder if we w