Neal Stephenson is a sci-fi writer (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and new book Termination Shock), former Chief Futurist at Magic Leap and first employee of Blue Origin. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(08:34) – WWII and human nature
(17:20) – Search engine morality
(21:58) – Space exploration
(38:59) – Aliens and UFOs
(47:21) – SpaceX and Blue Origin
(54:43) – Social media
(59:11) – Climate change
(1:11:00) – Consequences of big ideas
(1:15:42) – Virtual reality
(1:38:50) – Artificial intelligence
(1:53:49) – Cryptocurrency
(2:06:26) – Writing, storytelling, and books
(2:29:05) – Martial arts
(2:38:23) – Final thoughts
#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness
#268 – Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology
#267 – Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse
#266 – Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar
#265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling
#264 – Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity
#263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma
#262 – Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens
#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind
#260 – Georges St-Pierre, John Danaher & Gordon Ryan: The Greatest of All Time
#259 – Thomas Tull: From Batman Dark Knight Trilogy to AI and the Rolling Stones
#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning
#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize
#256 – Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony
#255 – Mark Normand: Comedy!
#254 – Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns
#253 – Michael Malice: New Year’s Special
#252 – Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI
#251 – Ray Dalio: Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires
#250 – Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality
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