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Superconductive materials seem miraculous. Their resistanceless flow of electricity has been exploited in some powerful ways—from super-strong magnets used in MRIs, particle accelerators and fusion plants. And then there’s, their bizarre ability to levitate in magnetic fields. But the broader use of superconductors is limited because they need to be cooled to extremely low temperatures to work. But what if we could produce superconductivity at room temperature? It would change the world.
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Killer Queen
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A million years into the future, what remains of humanity? AI-generated visuals bring to life a dystopian vision of Earth’s distant future—a world ruled by the Sovereign, where civilization has evolved beyond recognition. The last true humans, the Ancestrals, fight to survive in the shadows of a world no longer their own. There is no war, no peace—only the Struggle.
💡 What happens when civilization endures for eons?
💡 Can true humanity survive the relentless march of time?
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If civilizations can endure for eons and people can live indefinitely, what drives progress, ambition, and purpose in a world where time has no limit? Would an ageless society be a utopia of infinite wisdom, or a stagnating empire struggling to keep ambition alive across the centuries?
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/ discord Credits: Methuselah Civilizations: A Society of the Ageless Episode 489; March 6, 2025 Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Edited by: Ludwig Luska Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator Chris Zabriskie, “Unfoldment, Revealment”, “A New Day in a New Sector”, “Oxygen Garden”, “Wonder Cycle” Stellardrone, “Red Giant”, “Billions and Billions“
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Methuselah Civilizations: A Society of the Ageless.
Episode 489; March 6, 2025
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur.
Edited by: Ludwig Luska.
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Joscha Bach is a German cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher known for his work on cognitive architectures, artificial intelligence, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, multi-agent systems, and the philosophy of mind.
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00:00 Introduction.
01:26 Growing up in the forest in East Germany.
06:23 Academia: early neural net pioneers, CS and Philosophy.
10:17 The fall of the Berlin Wall.
14:57 Commodore 64 and early programming experiences.
15:29 AGI timeline and predictions.
19:35 Scaling hypothesis, beyond Transformers, universality of information structures and world models.
25:29 Consciousness.
41:11 The ethics of brain interventions, zombies, and the Turing test.
43:43 LLMs and simulated phenomenology.
46:34 The future of consciousness research.
48:44 Cultural perspectives on suffering.
52:19 AGI and humanity’s future.
58:18 Simulation hypothesis.
01:03:33 Liquid AI: Innovations and goals.
01:16:02 Philosophy of Identity: the Transporter Problem, Is there anything beyond memory records?
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Mind webs is not audio drama in the strict sense of the definition. This 1970s series out of WHA Radio in Madison, Wisconsin featured weekly readings of science fiction stories written by some of the genre’s best writers. Nevertheless, since many of the readings were enhanced by music, periodic sound cues, and the occasional character voice, I consider them ‘semi-dramatized’, and therefore meriting inclusion on this site. Besides, the music was so well written, and the performance of Michael Hanson, the reader, so evocative of each story’s mood, that the result was often better than most fully dramatized productions of the period. All voices were by Michael Hanson, except where noted.
According to Michael Hanson there were 169 half-hour shows which presented 188 short stories from 135 different authors. The series ran from April of 1975 until early 1984. Mr. Hanson personally selected the music from a huge range of classical, jazz, pop, rock, electronic, etc., recordings (vinyl records, by the way). All the editing was done via the now antiquated ‘cut-and-splice’ method. He was backed by some marvelously adept technicians who were of enormous assistance; they were always identified at the end of each broadcast.
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Technology may one day grant us a Utopia in which virtually all tasks are performed by robots and artificial intelligence. In such a post-scarcity civilization, people may have difficulty finding a purpose to existence. Today we will explore how this may come about, what the consequences of this existential threat might be, and what purposes people may find for themselves in such a future.
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/ purpose-narration-only Credits: Post-Scarcity Civilizations: Purpose ep 140 Season 4, Episode 26 Writers: Isaac Arthur Editors: A.T. Long Darius Said Dillon Olander Jerry Guern Justin Dixon Mark Warburton Matthew Acker Matthew Campbell Producer: Isaac Arthur Cover Artist: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier Graphics Team Jeremy Jozwik Justin Dixon Ken York Kristijan Tavcar Narrator Isaac Arthur Music Manager: Luca De Rosa — [email protected] Music: Dracovallis, “Cynthia” https://dracovallis.bandcamp.com/ Stellardrone, “Breathe In The Light” https://stellardrone.bandcamp.com Kai Engel, “Endless Story About Sun and Moon” https://www.kai-engel.com/ Chris Zabriskie, “A New Day in a New Sector” http://chriszabriskie.com Kai Engel, “Morbid_Imagination” https://www.kai-engel.com/ Aerium, “The Islands moved while I was asleep”
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