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Back to SearchEp 60: The Nexus (No music version).
Episode 61
This episode is identical to episode 59 - only it contains no music. I don't think this is as good :)
My preferred way to experience this is the vide…4 years, 11 months ago
Ep 59: The Nexus
Episode 60
My preferred way to experience this is the video version version which is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpTxBkmr4LE . There is another vers…
4 years, 11 months ago
Ep 58 Ch 18 "The Beginning" Part 1
Episode 59
The beginning of "The Beginning" which is the chapter at the very end of "The Beginning of Infinity". :) Ignore what I say early on in this episode: …
4 years, 11 months ago
Ep 57 "Existential Risk".
Episode 58
This is a podcast all about "Existential Risk". Made at the request of a Patreon, I cover the usual spectrum of ways in which people guess civilisat…
5 years ago
Ep 56: Ch 17 "Unsustainable" Part 4
Episode 57
The final part of the penultimate chapter. Here we cover "The parable of Europium" and other memorable pessimists from David's formative years. Some …
5 years ago
Ep 55:Existence
Episode 56
What does it mean for something to exist?
5 years ago
Ep 54 Ch 17 "Unsustainable" Part 3
Episode 55
Marx, Engels and Diamond present to us a vision of people as being in some sense impotent in the grand historical scheme - subject merely to natural …
5 years ago
Ep 53: Understanding Universality
Episode 54
This is additional material about Chapter 6 of "The Beginning of Infinity" - but goes into some additional areas. I compare Greek Gods to Blockchain …
5 years ago
Ep 52 Ch 17 "Unsustainable" Part 2
Episode 53
Easter Island, Incans, Llamas and Australia. Resources and knowledge, creativity and stasis. We begin to bring together the chapters that have come b…
5 years ago
Ep 51 Ch 17 "Unsustainable" Part 1
Episode 52
What does the watchword of today "sustainable" really mean when taken seriously? In this episode we compare two titans of science communication: Davi…
5 years, 2 months ago