REPLAY: Isaac Arthur – Colonizing Space, the Fermi Paradox and Future of Genetic Engineering
Jul 6, 2020 ·
58m 29s
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Isaac Arthur (@isaac_a_arthur) is a physicist and futurist who runs popular YouTube channel Featured Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur. Isaac’s popular channel has over 270k subscribers and 20M+ views...
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Isaac Arthur (@isaac_a_arthur) is a physicist and futurist who runs popular YouTube channel Featured Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur.
Isaac’s popular channel has over 270k subscribers and 20M+ views and a legion of loyal, insightful fans, including his own sub-Reddit. Arthur covers a wide range of futurist and science fiction ideas including cyborgs, androids and artificial intelligence, the Fermi paradox and interstellar warfare, Dyson spheres and megascale engineering, quantum teleportation and faster-than-light travel—typically exploring hypothetical scenarios extending to the distant future.
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- The future of interplanetary travel
- What you didn’t know about the Fermi paradox
- How humanity will likely evolve as we explore space
- The reason we probably won’t terraform planets and where we’ll live instead
- Why material science and meta-materials may be the most important technology of this decade
- The effects of genetic engineering on society
- Two paths to free energy for all
- The reason Isaac thinks we are close to a post-scarcity world
- Why Isaac thinks cybernetics/mechanical human enhancement is more likely than gene editing
- How Isaac build the top Science channel on Youtube
- The reason manmade structures are the habitats of the future
- How AI is likely to evolve and play out in society
- Why our education system is failing and how we can fix it
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Isaac’s popular channel has over 270k subscribers and 20M+ views and a legion of loyal, insightful fans, including his own sub-Reddit. Arthur covers a wide range of futurist and science fiction ideas including cyborgs, androids and artificial intelligence, the Fermi paradox and interstellar warfare, Dyson spheres and megascale engineering, quantum teleportation and faster-than-light travel—typically exploring hypothetical scenarios extending to the distant future.
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- The future of interplanetary travel
- What you didn’t know about the Fermi paradox
- How humanity will likely evolve as we explore space
- The reason we probably won’t terraform planets and where we’ll live instead
- Why material science and meta-materials may be the most important technology of this decade
- The effects of genetic engineering on society
- Two paths to free energy for all
- The reason Isaac thinks we are close to a post-scarcity world
- Why Isaac thinks cybernetics/mechanical human enhancement is more likely than gene editing
- How Isaac build the top Science channel on Youtube
- The reason manmade structures are the habitats of the future
- How AI is likely to evolve and play out in society
- Why our education system is failing and how we can fix it
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