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New Horizons
by Nezir Alic
Exploring future technologies, using rationality to understand our world, and occasional forays into philosophy and other topics of interest.
Episodes
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S2E4: Robert Zubrin - The Next Frontier: Settling Mars
We got to the Moon in eight years using slide rules. We still haven't returned, despite four times the GDP, twice the population, and artificial intelligence. Robert Zubrin's diagnosis is blunt: the system is senile.In the final episode of season two, we speak with Dr. Robert Zubrin, aerospace...
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S2E3: Niklas Anzinger - The Promise of Charter Cities
It now takes around fourteen years and hundreds of millions of dollars to get a new drug approved in the United States — up from about four years in 1962. And despite decoding the human genome, AI for protein folding, and computational biology, the cost of developing an approved drug roughly...
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S2E2: David Pearce - Engineering a World Without Suffering: Is it Possible?
What if suffering isn't an unavoidable feature of conscious life, but a solvable engineering problem? Philosopher David Pearce has spent three decades arguing that we could — and morally should — use biotechnology to abolish suffering entirely, not just in humans but across all sentient life.We…
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S2E1: Aurelia Song - Cryonics, Mind Uploading, and the Science of Preservation
Cryonics has been around since the 1960s, but it's never had a good answer to a basic question: does it actually work? For most of its history, nobody could show that the preservation techniques being sold to dying people were saving anything at all. In the first episode of Season 2, we sit down...
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S1E8: Eric Elmoznino - Could AIs be Conscious?
As AI systems become increasingly sophisticated, one of the most profound questions facing humanity is emerging: could artificial intelligence already possess consciousness? And if so, how would we even know? In this season finale, we explore the cutting-edge science of AI consciousness with Eric...
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S1E7: Riley Jackson - Will Your Next Burger Be Grown From Cells? The Cultivated Meat Revolution
What if we could produce real meat without raising and slaughtering billions of animals? Cultivated meat - real animal tissue grown from cells in bioreactors - could revolutionize our food system within the next decade.We sit down with Riley Jackson from Ivy Farm Technologies to explore how this...
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S1E6: Michael Poland - Could We Prevent a Supervolcanic Eruption?
Supervolcanoes pose a greater statistical threat to humanity than asteroids or comets - yet while NASA actively tracks space threats and has plans to deflect them, we have no defense against volcanic catastrophes that could end civilization as we know it.In this episode, we explore the science of...
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S1E5: Andre Suzanne - Debating a Catholic
In this episode, I sit down with recent Georgia Tech graduate and friend of mine, Andre Suzanne, for a philosophical debate on one of humanity's oldest questions: does God exist? We explore some of the classic arguments that have shaped religious and philosophical thought for centuries.The...
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S1E4: Tamara Bogdanovic - Listening to the Universe: The Future of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
LISA - the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna - will be humanity's first gravitational wave detector in space, launching in 2035. Unlike ground-based detectors like LIGO, LISA's three spacecraft will form a massive triangle 2.5 million kilometers on each side, allowing it to detect gravitational...
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S1E3: Jeff Hsu - Same-Sex Babies When?
In this episode, we dive into the reproductive tech revolution – IVG in particular - and hear that biological children for same-sex couples are much closer than many people believe. The same goes for the end of infertility, a significant speed-up of agricultural yields, and a variety of other...
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S1E2: Aubrey de Grey - Are we the First Generation to Live Forever?
Aging kills more people than cancer, heart disease, and accidents combined - often causing tremendous suffering along the way - yet most accept it as inevitable. In this episode with world-renowned biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, we explore the promise of treating aging as an engineering problem...
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S1E1: Zach Furman - Extinction or Utopia? The Future of AI
In this inaugural episode, we dive into what is perhaps the most pressing question of our time: How do we ensure artificial intelligence remains beneficial as it becomes more powerful? We explore the technical challenges of AI alignment - making sure advanced AI systems do what we actually want...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Exploring future technologies, using rationality to understand our world, and occasional forays into philosophy and other topics of interest.
HOSTED BY
Nezir Alic
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Exploring future technologies, using rationality to understand our world, and occasional forays into philosophy and other topics of interest.
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