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The Fermi Paradox: Extinction
Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook plus two Audible Originals are free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "ISAAC" to 500-500. The Fermi Paradox ask us how in a Universe so vast and ancient we seem to be...
Springtime on Mars: Terraforming the Red Planet
Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Colonizing Mars and terraforming it to be a comfortable future home for humanity is quite the challenge. How would we go about it and how close is close enough for our purposes? How...
Space Sports
Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Humanity has a long and inventive history of sports and games, and the future will offer us many new options for athletics as we move out in space, be it racing around the...
The Paperclip Maximizer
A Paperclip Maximizer is an example of artificial intelligence run amok performing a job, potentially seeking to turn all the Universe into paperclips. But it's also an example of a concept called Instrumental Convergence, where two entities with...
Space Derelicts & Trash Worlds
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SFIA Monthly Livestream: August 25, 2019
Our monthly livestream Q&A session. Join us 4pm EST, Sunday, August 25, 2019, and get your questions about the channel and episodes on chat to be answered! SFIA Discord Server: https://discord.gg/53GAShE Visit our Website:...
Things Which Will Never Exist
Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur It's popular to say nothing is impossible, especially in regard to the future and our Universe, but are there somethings which might turn out to be impossible or at least...
Megastructure Maintenance & Space Janitors
Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ In the future humanity might build structures of incomprehensible size and splendor, megastructures and artificial worlds, but somebody is going to have to build and maintain these...
Fusion: Powering a Bright Future
Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook plus two Audible Originals are free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "ISAAC" to 500-500. Nuclear Fusion holds the potential to free us of so many of the constraints...