#47 - Robin Hanson LaBossiere Podcast

Robin Hanson is a professor at George Mason University and researcher at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford.

0:00 - Intro
2:42 - Intelligent Life in the Universe
7:30 - Grabby Aliens: A Primer
15:29 - Elites and the End of Global Coordination
18:59 - 6 Hard Steps for the Emergence of Life
22:11 - The Probability of Aliens
33:05 - Domesticating Humans
38:08 - Signaling and the Elephant in the Brain
42:31 - Conscious and Subconscious Behavior
46:53 - Collective Signaling
49:54 - The Contrarian Economics of Medicine and Lifespan
57:00 - Taste
1:01:18 - Hyper-Rationality and Social Cohesion
1:07:03 - How to Predict the Future
1:12:11 - Brain Emulations
1:21:15 - Artificial General Intelligence
1:27:52 - The Descendants of Humans
1:32:49 - Changing Attitudes Toward Life and Death
1:37:33 - The Future of Inequality
1:42:10 - God and The Sacred
1:57:42 - The Most Surprising Thing Robin’s Learned Recently
1:59:57 - What Should More People be Thinking About?

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