Transhuman

Interview with Luke Kemp from CSER on how civilizations collapse - we cover a variety of topics including: - Population Dynamics - The Red Queen Hypothesis - Resiliency & Anti-Fragility - The Fermi Paradox - The Vulnerable World Hypothesis - Astronomical Waste Profile at CSER: https://www.cser.ac.uk/team/luke-kemp... thanks for watching!

David Pearce - The Anatomy of Happiness ... While researching epilepsy, neuroscientist Itzhak Fried stumbled on a 'mirth' center in the brain - given this, what ought we be doing to combat extreme suffering and promote wellbeing? https://youtu.be/DdqB1DNrClI #EffectiveAltruism #Happiness #Suffering @webmasterdave

Is Australia conscious? How would 86 billion classical neurons (mind dust) come together to form a unitary subject of experience? The answer is related to the binding problem of consciousness. Is Australia a unitary subject of experience? A quick snippet of part of a discussion with David Pearce in a pub in Melbourne, Australia (2014). 😄 https://youtu.be/2112mkp4oL0

Peter Fedichev, PhD is Founder & Chief Science Officer at Gero A passionate scientist with a background in biophysics, bioinformatics and condensed matter physics, Peter is the driving force behind the team. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam and conducted research at FOM Institute AMOLF (Netherlands) and the University of Innsbruck. To date, he has published over 70 papers covering his research on physics, biophysics and aging biology.

Global Catastrophic Biological Risks (GCBRs) are biological events with the potential to alter humanity's long-term trajectory or result in human extinction. Cassidy will argue that while the relative probability of a GCBR event may be low, reducing biological threats is arguably very cost-effective given the potential long-term consequences. She will also discuss how recent advancements in synthetic biology and genetic engineering have made anthropogenic pandemics an increasingly real possibility, making biosecurity an effective altruism cause area worthy of close consideration. Speaker Bio: Cassidy is an Affiliate Scholar at the Future of Humanity Institute. Previously she was a medical doctor working in communicable disease public health for the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services and human biosecurity for the Australian Government. She has previously worked in hospital and laboratory medicine around Australia and volunteered with the Waterwell

First part in an interview series with Scott Aaronson - this one is on quantum computing - future segments will be on Existential Risk, consciousness (including Scott's thoughts on IIT) and thoughts on whether the universe is discrete or continuous. See 'Complexity-Theoretic Foundations of Quantum Supremacy Experiments' https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/quantumsupre.pdf Bio : Scott Aaronson is a theoretical computer scientist and David J. Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. His primary areas of research are quantum computing and computational complexity theory. He blogs at Shtetl-Optimized: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/