XRiskology: Existential Risks with Phil Torres, Part I
We have a guest on the show today – Phil Torres. Phil Torres is an author, Affiliate Scholar at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, former contributor at the Future of Life Institute, ...
24 Sep 201747min
TEOTWAWKI 7 - Supervolcanoes
75,000 years ago, the human race was on the brink of extinction. The cause was the Toba supervolcanic eruption, which had plunged the earth into a volcanic winter and killed all but a few thousand re...
15 Sep 201722min
Bonus Episode: Solar Panels + Splitting Sunbeams
Occasionally, in the world, we observe empirical laws – the laws of experiment - that seem to be spookily accurate. There's no theoretical reason why they should be obeyed, but they just happen to des...
10 Sep 201720min
TEOTWAWKI 8: Cyberwarfare
We know that a great deal of our critical national infrastructure depends on complex cyber-systems; but in the fast-changing world of the internet and computer systems, it's become impossible for slow...
2 Sep 201727min
TEOTWAWKI 9: It Came From Outer Space
It's easy to forget that we are on a pale, blue dot - the one habitable place we know of in the whole, wide, Universe. Fragile. Perhaps too fragile. It's not that the Universe wants to kill us; it's ...
26 Aug 201731min
TEOTWAWKI 10: Earthquakes
Let's talk about earthquakes. As we know, the Earth's crust is made up of tectonic plates – vast plates of rock that shift around due to convection and the motion of fluid in Earth's mantle. They, rou...
19 Aug 201725min
Get Ready for the Apocalypse
We're going to be presenting a very special series of episodes over the next few months. The end of the world. Is it going to end in fire, or ice? And is there anything we can do about it? Get ready...
16 Aug 20171min
Fermi and Drake
Are we alone in the Universe? Or are there alien civilisations out there? And if there are, where are they, and why aren't they talking to us? We'll explore the Fermi paradox, the Drake equation, and...
12 Aug 201732min
