Oct 14, 2020
Very excited to say we have a special guest on the show today. Tom
Collina has had a long and storied career in nuclear disarmament
for many years, in the Director of Policy at the Plougshares Fund,
a non-profit foundation dedicated to trying to prevent the spread
and use of nuclear weapons. With former Secretary of...
Mar 17, 2020
For weeks I've been debating in my mind whether or not to do an episode on the coronavirus pandemic, since it's essentially been all I have been able to think about for the last few weeks as my friends and relatives, long-suffering as they are, will attest. For someone who spent so long thinking about existential risks...
Jan 1, 2019
Hello, and welcome to this episode of Physical Attraction. In this
episode, I interview Karin Kuhlemann on the subject of
population.
We touched on this briefly during the TEOTWAWKI specials,
particularly in relation to the ancient ideas of Malthus - that
famine might "correct" natural excesses of human population
in...
Oct 25, 2018
A recent report released at https://maliciousaireport.com/ on
the potential malicious uses for artificial intelligence brings us
sharply to the present.
In the TEOTWAWKI episodes on AI, we focused on "hard AI" - the
potentials for chaos and rapid change if artificial intelligence
becomes "truly sentient". But in the...
Oct 18, 2018
A recent report released at https://maliciousaireport.com/ on
the potential malicious uses for artificial intelligence brings us
sharply to the present.
In the TEOTWAWKI episodes on AI, we focused on "hard AI" - the
potentials for chaos and rapid change if artificial intelligence
becomes "truly sentient". But in the...