A look at various Cataclysmic Scenarios in terms of how they factor into the Fermi Paradox. We'll look at everything from Biowarfare and AI to Nukes and Grey Goo


FP03 - Apocalypse How

A look at how emerging concepts in science & technology could disrupt our most our understandings of identity, consciousness, and free will. This is the 5th episode of the Existential Crisis series which looks at concepts like Transhumanism, Life Extension, the Simulation Hypothesis, the Doomsday Argument, and the Anthropic Principle. 

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EC05 Consciousness And Identity

This videos covers two topics, the Anthropic Principle, which uses the idea that your own existence might skew the odds of events you witness, and the basic concepts of Super-Intelligence, and what we might expect of humans or artificial intelligence that achieve that.
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EC04 The Anthropic Principle And Super Intelligence

A look at the Carter Doomsday Argument, which is uses a probabilistic argument and Anthropic Reasoning to estimate that humanity is running out of time.
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EC03 The Doomsday Argument

In this Episode we examine the concept of the Simulation Hypothesis, which proposes a mathematical argument that we are almost certainly simulations running on a computer.
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EC02 The Simulation Hypothesis

A look at concepts of transhumanism and life extension
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EC01 Transhumanism And Immortality

The concept of a Technological Singularity, an accelerated rush in processing speed improvements culminating in a super-mind, has captivated people for decades. Today we will examine this idea and look at some misconceptions about it.

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Dexter Britain "Seeing the Future" 
Frank Dorittke "Morninglight"
Dexter Britain "After The Week I've Had"
Kai Engel "Snowfall"
Kevin MacLeod “Spacial Winds”
Phase Shift “Forest Night”
Brandon Liew "Into the Storm" 

EC06 Technological Singularity

The Butterfly Effect is the principle that notes that even the smallest actions can have sweeping effects on everything in the long term. Today we'll look at that effect and ask what it means toward chaos, inevitable events, fate, and free will itself.

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Credits:
The Butterfly Effect

Written by:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Darius Said
Jerry Guern
Victoria Kelly

Graphics:
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Isaac Arthur

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Markus Junnikkala, "The Fate of Our People" & "A Memory of Earth" https://www.markusjunnikkala.com/
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The Butterfly Effect (Narration Only)

H.P. Lovecraft is known as the father of the Cosmic Horror genre of fiction. The creator of Cthulhu and many other terrifying dark gods in his novels paints a bleak and decaying view of our world and the Universe. Today we'll examine what it might imply if that nihilistic and grim view of reality was correct.

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Credits:
Gods & Monsters: Space as Lovecraft Envisioned it
Episode 214, Season 5 E48

Written by
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
A.T. Long
Jerry Guern
Keith Blockus
Victoria Kelly
Matthew Campbell

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Gods & Monsters: Space As Lovecraft Envisioned It (Narration Only)

We often speculate that the reason we can't hear aliens civilizations is because our SETI efforts (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) relies on radio and telescopes to weak to hear them. But how plausible is that? and what would it tell us about our own future?

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Credits:
The Fermi Paradox:Whispers in the Night
Episode 230; Mar 19, 2020

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Isaac Arthur

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Jerry Guern

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Isaac Arthur

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Lombus, "Cosmic Soup" https://lombus.bandcamp.com
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The Butterfly Effect (Narration Only)

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