Robin Hanson on Grabby Aliens and When Humanity Will Meet Them
Robin Hanson joins the podcast to explain his theory of grabby aliens and its implications for the future of humanity.
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Ajeya Cotra on Thinking Clearly in a Rapidly Changing World
Ajeya Cotra joins us to talk about thinking clearly in a rapidly changing world.
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Ajeya Cotra on how Artificial Intelligence Could Cause Catastrophe
Ajeya Cotra joins us to discuss how artificial intelligence could cause catastrophe.
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Ajeya Cotra on Forecasting Transformative Artificial Intelligence
Ajeya Cotra joins us to discuss forecasting transformative artificial intelligence.
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Alan Robock on Nuclear Winter, Famine, and Geoengineering
Alan Robock joins us to discuss nuclear winter, famine and geoengineering.
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Brian Toon on Nuclear Winter, Asteroids, Volcanoes, and the Future of Humanity
Brian Toon joins us to discuss the risk of nuclear winter.
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Philip Reiner on Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications
Philip Reiner joins us to talk about nuclear, command, control and communications systems.
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David Pearce and Andrés Gómez Emilsson on Identity and the AI Revolution
In the 1984 book Reasons and Persons, philosopher Derek Parfit asks the reader to consider the following scenario: You step into a teleportation machine that scans your complete atomic structure, annihilates you, and then relays that atomic information to Mars at the speed of light.
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Anthony Aguirre on Identity, Information & the Nature of Reality
Our perceptions of reality are based on the physics of interactions ranging from millimeters to miles in scale.
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George Church on the Future of Computation, Synthetic Biology, and Life
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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Max Tegmark on Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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.
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