Stephen Batchelor, a Secular Buddhist teacher and former monk, joins the FLI Podcast to discuss the project of awakening, the facets of human nature which contribute to extinction risk, and how we might better embrace existential threats.
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Kelly Wanser from SilverLining joins us to discuss techniques for climate intervention to mitigate the impacts of human induced climate change.
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In the contemporary practice of many scientific disciplines, questions of values, norms, and political thought rarely explicitly enter the picture.
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From a young age, humans are capable of developing moral competency and autonomy through experience.
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It's well-established in the AI alignment literature what happens when an AI system learns or is given an objective that doesn't fully capture what we want.
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Sam Barker, a Berlin-based music producer, and David Pearce, philosopher and author of The Hedonistic Imperative, join us on a special episode of the FLI Podcast to spread some existential hope.
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Over the past several centuries, the human condition has been profoundly changed by the agricultural and industrial revolutions.
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Human civilization increasingly has the potential both to improve the lives of everyone and to completely destroy everything.
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Progress in synthetic biology and genetic engineering promise to bring advancements in human health sciences by curing disease, augmenting human capabilities, and even reversing aging.
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Neither Yuval Noah Harari nor Max Tegmark need much in the way of introduction.
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Neither Yuval Noah Harari nor Max Tegmark need much in the way of introduction.
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Elon Musk has called it a compelling guide to the challenges and choices in our quest for a great future of life on Earth and beyond, while Stephen Hawking and Ray Kurzweil have referred to it as an introduction and guide to the most important conversation of our time.
View episodeNo matter your level of experience or seniority, there is something you can do to help us ensure the future of life is positive.
