Who Will Thrive in a Post-AI World? The Dawn of AI w/ Matt McDonagh (WiM566)

Matt McDonagh joins me to discuss how AI is saving lives, the differences between AGI and LLMs like ChatGPT, the ethics of synthetic consciousness, if Bitcoin was invented or discovered, simulation theory and predicting the future using AI, and why the accelerating rate of technological change demands a new way of thinking about human flourishing.

Matt McDonagh is a former Wall St banker turned self-proclaimed Bitcoin nerd, data engineer, and family office investor.

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0:00 - Intro
1:25 - How AI Helped to Save a Life, Twice
3:25 - Innovative Technologies and Creative Destruction
6:43 - ChatGPT vs Deepseek and AI Computation Methods
12:10 - Matt’s Experience Investing in AI Value Creation
14:11 - What is AI and AGI?
20:37 - Reinforcement learning vs SFR learning
23:43 - What is Intelligence?
28:33 - The Farm at Okefenokee (AD)
30:00 - iCoin Technology (AD)
31:00 - The Rate of Change of the Past vs the Exponential Change of the Future
35:59 - The Relationship Between Life and Information
41:22 - How Should Humans Program the Ethics of Synthetic Consciousness?
49:05 - Centralized vs Decentralized Agents ~ Communism vs Capitalism
58:54 - Heart and Soil (AD)
59:55 - Wolf (AD)
1:00:53 - Knowledge is a Library
1:04:52 - Was Bitcoin Invented or Discovered?
1:11:19 - Simulation Theory and Predicting Future Action with AI
1:19:51 - The Dawn of AI
1:24:25 - Blockware Solutions (AD)
1:25:27 - Onramp (AD)
1:27:44 - The Development of AI in the Past Half Century
1:37:08 - Intelligence Evolves in Layers
1:40:33 - The Insufficiency of a Physical understanding of the Universe
1:43:10 - What is Physiognomy?
1:45:50 - Mimetic Desire and Downstream Effects of Bitcoin
1:52:35 - Mindlab Pro (AD)
1:53:46 - Coinbits (AD)
1:54:59 - Key Foundational Elements of AI
2:09:36 - The Transformation of Everything with AI (Decentralized vs Centralized)
2:18:36 - The Impact AI on Healthcare
2:31:04 - AI Strengthening Generalists and Citizen Scientists
2:36:33 - The Dance Between Science and Technology
2:40:25 - Artificial Intelligence or Community Intelligence?
2:43:30 - DeFi is a Farmer’s Market, TradFi is a Supermarket Chain
2:46:32 - What this all Means Moving Forward
2:49:18 - Advice for the Changing Future
2:54:23 - Where to Find Matt McDonagh

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