- 11-30#486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
- 00:00Introduction
- 00:29Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections
- 10:09Biological intelligence
- 18:42Living vs non-living organisms
- 23:55Origin of life
- 27:40The search for alien life (on Earth)
- 1:00:44Creating life in the lab – Xenobots and Anthrobots
- 1:13:46Memories and ideas are living organisms
- 1:27:26Reality is an illusion: The brain is an interface to a hidden reality
- 2:13:13Unexpected Intelligence in sorting algorithms
- 2:38:51Can aging be reversed?
- 2:42:41Mind uploading
- 3:01:22Alien intelligence
- 3:16:17Advice for young people
- 3:22:46Questions for AGI
- 11-17#485 – David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy
- 00:00Introduction
- 03:00Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections
- 11:35Nuclear fission vs fusion
- 21:35Physics of E=mc^2
- 26:50Is nuclear fusion safe?
- 32:11Chernobyl
- 38:38Geopolitics
- 40:33Extreme scenarios
- 47:28How nuclear fusion works
- 1:20:20Extreme temperatures
- 1:25:21Fusion control and simulation
- 1:37:15Electricity from fusion
- 2:11:20First fusion power plant in 2028
- 2:18:13Energy needs of GPU clusters
- 2:28:38Kardashev scale
- 2:36:33Fermi Paradox