Transcript: Reid Hoffman on How AI Might Answer Our Biggest Questions

The transcript of How Do You Use ChatGPT? with Reid Hoffman is below for paying subscribers.

Introduction: 00:01:58
Why philosophy will make you a better founder: 00:04:35
The fundamental problem with “trolley problems”: 00:08:22
How AI is changing the essentialism v. nominalism debate: 00:14:27
Why embeddings align with nominalism: 00:29:33
How LLMs are being trained to reason better: 00:34:26
How technology changes the way we see ourselves and the world around us: 00:44:52
Why most psychology literature is wrong: 00:46:24
Why philosophers didn’t come up with AI: 00:52:46
How to use ChatGPT to be more philosophically inclined: 00:56:30

Dan Shipper (00:01:13)

Reid, welcome to the show.

Reid Hoffman (00:01:15)

It’s great to be here.

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