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In the future we will rely ever more on Artificial Intelligence to run our civilization, but what role will AI and computers playing in governing?

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AI Run Government
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 284; April 1, 2021
Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors: 
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Jerry Guern
Keith Blockus
Mark Warburton
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AI Run Government (Narration Only)

Pressure on the king’s half-brother may represent a mere family feud, but Prince Hamzah’s complaints <a href="https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2021/04/05/a-feud-in-jordans-royal-family?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">resonate</a> with the country’s people. We ask what will happen next. Study the fast-growing list of India’s billionaires: who has joined it and who has left are <a href="https://www.economist.com/business/2021/03/27/who-are-indias-newest-billionaires?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signs</a> of the country’s shifting economy. And an indigenous group’s <a href="https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2021/03/27/how-a-canadian-indigenous-group-could-outwit-nimbys?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tall order</a> in Vancouver’s property market. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here <a href="http://www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer</a> &#10;&nbsp; <hr>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

Crown and thorn: Jordan’s royal ruckus

Drake's Equation lies at the core of the Fermi Paradox and SETI, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, but is it a good guide in our search for aliens, and what does modern astronomy tell us about the probabilities of finding life on exoplanets?

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The Fermi Paradox: Drake's Equation
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 285, April 8, 2021

Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Isaac Arthur

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The Fermi Paradox :Drakes Equation (Narration Only)

The Fermi Paradox contemplates the weirdness of our galaxy seemingly being devoid of intelligent alien life, but Many Worlds Theory, Multiverses, Parallel Universe, and Alternate Realities may radically alter our thinking on Aliens & SETI.

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The Fermi Paradox: Multiverse
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 288; April 29, 2021

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Jason Burbank

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The Fermi Paradox: Multiverse (Narration Only)

Arcologies are type of future giant buildings, towns, or off-world outposts where architecture meets ecology and contains entirely self-sufficient communities, from homes to farms and factories.

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Arcology Design
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 291, May 20, 2021

Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Arcology Design (Narration Only)

Our Sun constantly froths with sunspots and solar flares, many larger than our planet, and yet these are dwarfed by Coronal Mass Ejections, such as the Carrington Event of 1859, which would have wiped out our communication and electric grid had it occurred today. For all of that, our Sun is far less volatile than most stars, and this may be a factor in why Earth has a technological civilization.

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The Fermi Paradox: Solar Flares
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 292, May 27, 2021

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The Fermi Paradox: Solar Flares (Narration Only)

We contemplate colonizing planets, but what about the stars themselves?
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Containing virtually all the mass and resources of the solar system, the Sun, the Sun is the ultimate asset for a growing interplanetary civilization. While typically assumed too hot to touch and so out of our reach, we will challenge that notion today.

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Colonizing the Sun (Narration Only)

A new paper has come out discussing how the Fermi Paradox might be explained by the rigors of traveling space for interstellar colonization, causing settlements to be rare and and possibly not long-lived. We'll look at this model for spreading humanity out across the galaxy and see what insights or flaws it might have.

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Credits - The Fermi Paradox: The Aurora Effect
Episode 176a, Season 5 E10a

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Darius Said
Isaac Arthur
Mark Warburton

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Matthew Campbell
Sigmund Kopperud

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The Fermi Paradox & the Aurora Effect (Narration Only)

In order to get into space, we require either huge amounts of rocket fuel or dangerously powerful energy sources, making personal spacecraft a technology limited to science fiction. But by harnessing beamed power sources to run engines, we may be able to create a spaceplane cheap enough and safe enough that  anyone could have one in the future.
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Upward Bound: Beam Powered Spaceships
Episode 192, Season 5 E27

Written by:
Isaac Arthur

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Evan Schultheis
Darius Said
Keith Blockus
Matthew Acker
S Graham https://beyondnerva.wordpress.com
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Sam McNamara
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Beam Powered Spaceships (Narration Only)

We often consider interacting with Aliens and Robots in the future, but what about Alien Robots? Today we'll ask what artificial intelligence created by aliens might look like and what sort of circumstances we'd encounter them, and if they may be the only aliens we ever encounter.

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Alien Civilizations: AI Aliens
Episode 212a, Season 5 E46a

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AI Aliens (Narration Only)

The Fermi Paradox asks why we don't see any alien civilizations with our SETI efforts. The Late Filters are common solution suggested, that intelligent species may often arise but either destroy themselves or unwilling or incapable of interstellar travel to reach new worlds and colonize the galaxy.

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The Fermi Paradox Great Filters: Late Filters
Episode 213, Season 5 E47

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Jerry Guern
Keith Blockus
Matthew Acker
Phonetic Failure
Victoria Kelly 

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The Fermi Paradox: Late Filters

The big question of why life exists has challenged minds for countless centuries, but what does science have to say on this matter? Could life arise on other worlds and in other Universes, and what is the reason for it?

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Alien Civilizations: Conspiratorial Aliens
Episode 220, Season 6 E02

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Isaac Arthur
Jerry Guern

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Darius Said
Keith Blockus
Matthew Campbell

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Why Life Exists (Narration Only)

sometimes i think i'm making sounds just to distract myself from something other thing.

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For every yellow star like our own there are ten times as many smaller stars. Red Dwarfs are the most common type of star, outnumbering all the others combined, and as we head out into interstellar space to colonize the galaxy, the exoplanets around these red alien suns may be the most common home for settlers.

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Colonizing Red Dwarfs
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 275, January 27, 2021
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Colonizing Red Dwarfs (Narration Only)

Science Fiction often shows us aliens and human living among one another in space, but how realistic are such portrayals and what sort of accommodation would extraterrestrials need for their environments? We will also ask if humans and aliens could live together, possibly even marry and have hybrid offspring.

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Multi-Species Civilizations & Co-Alien Habitats
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 277a; February 14, 2021
Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Jerry Guern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxgArWbEhZg
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Colonizing Red Dwarfs (Narration Only)

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