Description

Robin and I talk about the sacred, humanity's descendants, and social rot.

Episode transcript: ⁠⁠https://www.danschulz.co/p/1-robin-hanson⁠⁠

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Timestamps

(00:00) Intro

(00:31) Changing careers late in life

(01:29) Philosophy

(04:33) AI

(15:20) The sacred

(29:56) Humans exploring the universe

(38:02) Social rot

(46:52) The Elephant in the Brain

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Links

- The Age of Em

- The Elephant in the Brain

- Robin’s YouTube debates

- "What Makes Stuff Rot?”

- "Will World Government Rot?"

- Grabby aliens

- Construal level theory

- Émile Durkheim

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