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
#99 – Karl Friston: Neuroscience and the Free Energy Principle
#97 – Sertac Karaman: Robots That Fly and Robots That Drive
#96 – Stephen Schwarzman: Going Big in Business, Investing, and AI
#95 – Dawn Song: Adversarial Machine Learning and Computer Security
#94 – Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning
#93 – Daphne Koller: Biomedicine and Machine Learning
#92 – Harry Cliff: Particle Physics and the Large Hadron Collider
#91 – Jack Dorsey: Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence
#90 – Dmitry Korkin: Computational Biology of Coronavirus
#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics
#88 – Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas, Leaders & Institutions
#87 – Richard Dawkins: Evolution, Intelligence, Simulation, and Memes
#86 – David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning
#85 – Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe
#83 – Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence
#82 – Simon Sinek: Leadership, Hard Work, Optimism and the Infinite Game
#81 – Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering
#80 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money
#79 – Lee Smolin: Quantum Gravity and Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution
#78 – Ann Druyan: Cosmos, Carl Sagan, Voyager, and the Beauty of Science
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