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Episode 20: Apocalypse How?
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Climate change, nuclear war, hostile AI, runaway nanotech, supervolcanoes, supermassive meteor strikes and unrelenting alien invasions: Ped and Tom shine a gamma ray burst on the biggest threats to our continued existence. Inspiration optional!
Discuss the podcast on Reddit.
Support the podcast on Patreon.
Micro follow-ups [00:00]
- Todoist is working out great for Ped
- Blink: exceptional standalone sci-fi, and a great Who intro
- Andrew Mao clarifies Resilient Cooperators (more to come)
Handicapping the (Human) Race [15:22]
- Inevitably, we roll along
- Wikipedia at its best: Global Catastrophic Risk
- Nick Bostrom and the Future of Humanity Institute
- Carlin on the anthropocene (and the sixth extinction we’re soaking in)
- Thich Nhat Hanh: evolving intelligence and love
- Interlude: A brief stroll through the Fermi Paradox and the Great Filter
- It’s two and a half minutes to midnight: The Doomsday Clock advances
- Hostile AI: Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and many others are sounding alarms
- Nanotech ecophagy, Grey Goo and see also Astrochicken
- Just a matter of time: supervolcano eruptions and magnetic pole reversal
- Gamma Ray Bursts - what fun!
Music by Lee Rosevere (CC by 4.0)
56 odcinków
Manage episode 187991421 series 1327292
Climate change, nuclear war, hostile AI, runaway nanotech, supervolcanoes, supermassive meteor strikes and unrelenting alien invasions: Ped and Tom shine a gamma ray burst on the biggest threats to our continued existence. Inspiration optional!
Discuss the podcast on Reddit.
Support the podcast on Patreon.
Micro follow-ups [00:00]
- Todoist is working out great for Ped
- Blink: exceptional standalone sci-fi, and a great Who intro
- Andrew Mao clarifies Resilient Cooperators (more to come)
Handicapping the (Human) Race [15:22]
- Inevitably, we roll along
- Wikipedia at its best: Global Catastrophic Risk
- Nick Bostrom and the Future of Humanity Institute
- Carlin on the anthropocene (and the sixth extinction we’re soaking in)
- Thich Nhat Hanh: evolving intelligence and love
- Interlude: A brief stroll through the Fermi Paradox and the Great Filter
- It’s two and a half minutes to midnight: The Doomsday Clock advances
- Hostile AI: Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and many others are sounding alarms
- Nanotech ecophagy, Grey Goo and see also Astrochicken
- Just a matter of time: supervolcano eruptions and magnetic pole reversal
- Gamma Ray Bursts - what fun!
Music by Lee Rosevere (CC by 4.0)
56 odcinków
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