Episode 20: Apocalypse How?

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Climate change, nuclear war, hostile AI, runaway nanotech, supervolcanoes, supermassive meteor strikes and unrelenting alien invasions: Ped and Tom shine a gamma ray burst on the biggest threats to our continued existence. Inspiration optional!

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Micro follow-ups [00:00]

Todoist is working out great for Ped
Blink: exceptional standalone sci-fi, and a great Who intro
Andrew Mao clarifies Resilient Cooperators (more to come)

Handicapping the (Human) Race [15:22]

Inevitably, we roll along
Wikipedia at its best: Global Catastrophic Risk
Nick Bostrom and the Future of Humanity Institute
Carlin on the anthropocene (and the sixth extinction we’re soaking in)
Thich Nhat Hanh: evolving intelligence and love
Interlude: A brief stroll through the Fermi Paradox and the Great Filter
It’s two and a half minutes to midnight: The Doomsday Clock advances
Hostile AI: Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and many others are sounding alarms
Nanotech ecophagy, Grey Goo and see also Astrochicken
Just a matter of time: supervolcano eruptions and magnetic pole reversal
Gamma Ray Bursts - what fun!

Music by Lee Rosevere (CC by 4.0)

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