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OUTLINE:(00:00) - Introduction(00:29) - Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections(08:40) - Learnable patterns in nature(12:22) - Computation and P vs NP(21:00) - Veo 3 and understanding reality(25:24) - Video games(37:26) - AlphaEvolve(43:27) - AI research(47:51) - Simulating a biological organism(52:34) - Origin of life(58:49) - Path to AGI(1:09:35) - Scaling laws(1:12:51) - Compute(1:15:38) - Future of energy(1:19:34) - Human nature(1:24:28) - Google and the race to AGI(1:42:27) - Competition and AI talent(1:49:01) - Future of programming(1:55:27) - John von Neumann(2:04:41) - p(doom)(2:09:24) - Humanity(2:12:30) - Consciousness and quantum computation(2:18:40) - David Foster Wallace(2:25:54) - Education and research

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