Paradigm Matthew Geleta

Do we need nuclear energy?

Michael Muthukrishna shares his insights. Michael is an associate professor of economic psychology at the London School of Economics, and the author of the book "A Theory of Everyone".


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Michael's books: https://www.atheoryofeveryone.com/


Timestamps:

00:00 Episode intro

01:00 Energy and nuclear power - reflections

08:00 How do cultural differences impact how we work together?

23:30 Why is human coordination and cooperation so difficult

33:50 Why do we need energy abundance to enable cooperation?

46:05 What is the most efficient energy source?

1:00:00 Why is energy becoming scarce?

1:06:45 Nuclear - why might this be our best bet?

1:11:40 Sustainability - should we pull the brakes?

1:23:16 Major challenge for the 21st century

1:27:50 Book recommendations


#nuclear #energy #sustainability #solarenergy #windenergy #nuclearenergy

Lee McIntyre is philosopher and leading voice on the topics of Disinformation and Science Denial.


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Lee's books: https://leemcintyrebooks.com/



Timestamps

0:00 Intro - disinformation

5:05 Flat Earther phenomenon

9:30 What is disinformation?

11:40 How big of a problem is disinformation?

16:40 What should we do when the truth sounds conspiratorial?

22:15 Origins to Big Tobacco

27:50 Amplification of disinformation

31:25 Is social media to blame?

34:30 How should social media companies be regulated?

46:30 Social media business models

50:15 Information diet - what is healthy?

56:45 How can individuals protect themselves against misinformation?

59:25 Book recommendations

Philip Goff is a philosopher and author, and one of the world's foremost proponents of panpsychism, among several other non-mainstream philosophical views.


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Philip's Links:


‘Mind Chat’ Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@MindChat
Book: ‘Why? The Purpose of the Universe’: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Purpose-Universe-Philip-Goff/dp/0198883765/
Website: https://philipgoffphilosophy.com
Social Media: https://twitter.com/Philip_Goff

Timestamps
00:00 Intro
04:30 Response to Richard Dawkins' meaningless purposeless universe

10:15 Why might the universe have a purpose?

15:10 Why does the universe seem designed for life?

20:30 Is the universe design for rabbits?

26:30 The multiverse hypothesis and reverse gambler's fallacy

38:10 Pseudoscience and falsifiability

41:30 What does it mean to say the universe has a purpose?

45:10 Is a universe with purpose a good thing?

56:50 How this has changed Philip's life?

1:02:55 Regrets and #movember

1:04:30 Book recommendations
1:09:50 Who should represent humanity to an AI superintelligence?

Sara is an astronomer and planetary scientist known for her pioneering work on the vast and unknown world of exoplanets, and the search for life beyond Earth.

We discuss:


The prospects for finding alien life in our solar system
The possibility that there is life on Venus
The infamous fermi paradox
Exoplanets
The beautify of the night sky 

… and other topics.



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Timestamps

0:00 Intro: Where are they?

5:35 Is there life on Venus?

13:25 Venus Life Finder mission

17:15 Non-biological life?

20:15 How might aliens discover life on Earth?

23:17 Should we broadcast our existence?

28:30 Consensus view - is there life outside of Earth?

31:05 Fermi Paradox - where are they?

34:50 Exoplanets

48:20 Starshade mission

54:11 Beauty and awe in physics

1:03:50 Book recommendations

1:11:23 Behind the scenes / backstory

Joscha is an artificial intelligence researcher, cognitive scientist, and philosopher known for his work on cognitive architectures and mind extension technologies.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro - AI risk

5:20 Transhumanism and mind uploading

10:20 Philosophy of self & mind

12:50 Is mind uploading physically possible?

21:50 Tele-transportation

24:50 Philosophy of self & mind - part 2

31:40 Gaia & hypergaia

37:05 Information processing & consciousness

54:10 AI risk & Eliezer Yudkowsky

1:03:10 AI regulation & control

1:11:25 Responsible AI development

1:27:26 AI intelligence explosion

1:36:23 Book recommendations & wrap

Anil is a cognitive and computational neuroscientist and author of an excellent and highly successful book called Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.

He is recognised as being in the top 0.1% of most impactful researchers globally, and his TED talks have collectively been viewed around 20 million.

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

4:10 Blue and black or white and gold?

9:08 Yanny or Laurel?

12:17 Do we see the world in the same way?

18:21 Perceived is a controlled hallucination

24:16 Why does consciousness exist?

31:19 The Hard and Real problems of consciousness

34:15 Integrated information theory

46:17 Beast machines and the emergence of consciousness

1:04:40 Dreams, psychedelics and exotic conscious experiences

1:18:00 Book recommendations