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Mario Juric
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Recent Episodes
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Terence Tao warns AI cannot be trusted alone, but remains a powerful tool.
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Yampolskiy argues superintelligence safety is impossible, comparing it to perpetual motion.
Joscha Bach
Roman Yampolskiy
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Francis Halzen calls physics a miserable career, driven by obsession.
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Francis Halzen explains how IceCube detects neutrinos, bypassing Milky Way interference.
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Terence Tao faced a mathematical wall, advisor refused help.
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Francis Halzen doubted his IceCube neutrino telescope idea.
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Daron Acemoglu: AI's productivity gains are exaggerated.
Daron Acemoglu
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Fritz Haber's ammonia synthesis feeds billions but enabled WWI poison gas.
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Soviet telemetry confirmed Apollo moon landings, a key piece of evidence.
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Robert Wright argues AI alignment is a moral issue, not technical.
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Nimitz tic-tac maneuver requires 1000 gigawatts, far exceeding US nuclear capacity.
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Carlo Rovelli argues free will is real, supported by quantum mechanics.
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Astrobiologists believe alien life exists, but evidence is near zero.
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Brian Keating, Emad Mostaque, and Roman Yampolskiy discuss AI consciousness and its ethical implications.
Emad Mostaque
Roman Yampolskiy
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Physicist Nigel Goldenfeld challenges AI's ability to fit noise with enough parameters.
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Scientists built the quietest place on Earth to detect dark matter.
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Gaia data shows Milky Way's outer rotation curve falling, contradicting dark matter and MOND expectations.
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Explores the nature of time and its unidirectional flow, questioning if it's a fundamental aspect of reality.
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OpenAI claims to have solved Navier-Stokes using AI, sparking debate on AGI.
Emad Mostaque
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Terence Tao explores AI's potential to solve the Navier-Stokes equations.