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Sentient Planets & World Consciousnesses
Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur We often imagine that our planet might be a sentient entity - Gaia - but could something like this evolve under known science? And might a conscious world be something we...
The Future of Farming
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Standing Out in a Civilization of Trillions
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A Future Without Money?
Start Forging New Worlds: https://www.worldanvil.com/isaac-arthur Many dream of a future with lots of money, other where currency is a thing of the past, a prosperous post-scarcity civilization, but could such a future be possible? And what would a...
SFIA Monthly Livestream: September 26, 2021
Our monthly livestream Q&A session. Join us 4pm EST, Sunday, September 26, and get your questions about the channel and episodes on chat to be answered! Jerry Guern's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynSxiFuEyOg Catch the audio-only...
The Fermi Paradox: Hidden Alien Civilizations
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Megastructure Death
Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Megastructures of the future may range in size from cities to entire galaxies, and must be built to withstand damage and time, but how is this done and what happens when a...
Stealth Spaceships
Subscribe for free to receive Morning Brew: https://bit.ly/mbisaacarthur Science fiction is full of stealthy spaceships able to cloak or hide from detection, but will stealth ships be possible in the future? Visit our Website:...
Human-Machine Teaming
Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Teaming up with the machines we’ve designed and created has boosted our production and let us attempt things we never could have before, but as Artificial Intelligence...