Scenario 3 doesn't entirely make sense since they wouldn't be getting revenge on the actual people who slighted them. So having them be conscious would be pointless.

As computers have improved at an accelerating rate for generations now, fears of some emergent super intelligent computer mind have grown, but is such a Technological Singularity Inevitable, and can we survive it?

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Is a Technological Singularity Inevitable?
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 340, April 28, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
David McFarlane
Jason Burbank
Konstantin Sokerin

Cover Art:
Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier

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Is A Technological Singularity Inevitable?

One day humanity might journey to new worlds and settle them, or discover life already on them, but first we'll have to find those exoplanets under aliens suns.

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Surveying for Habitable Interstellar Star Systems
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 343, May 19, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Andrew Nelson
Curt Hartung
David McFarlane

Cover Art:
Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier

Graphics:
Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana
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Surveying For Habitable Interstellar Star Systems

Surveying For Habitable Interstellar Star Systems (Narration Only)

Many don't realize that most of our satellites and space stations aren't intended to be far from Earth, but rather, as close as we can get them and still maintain a stable orbit. How much lower can we go in the future?

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Dark Sky Stations, Stratospheric Satellites, and Ultra Low Orbit Infrastructure
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 344, May 26, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
David McFarlane

Cover Art:
Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier

Graphics:
Ervin Oprea
Fishy Tree
Jarred Eagley
Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana
Katie Byrne
Ken York https://www.facebook.com/YDVisual/
Sam McNamara of Rapid Thrash
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Stephen Huck
Udo Schroeter

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Dark Sky Stations, Stratospheric Satellites, and Ultra Low Orbit Infrastructure

Our capability to render virtual realities better and better makes it seem likely one day we could simulate our world flawlessly, and perhaps our minds too. If so, perhaps we will in the future... and perhaps we already did in the past.

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What are Ancestor Simulations... and are we living in one?
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 345, June 2, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
David McFarlane

Cover Art:
Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier

Graphics:
Darth Biomech
Jeremy Jozwik
Udo Schroeter

Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator
also featuring "Moonstead" by Eric Smith (Rak)

What Are Ancestor Simulations... And Are We Living In One

In the future humanity may build enormous structures, feats of mega-engineering that may rival planets or even be of greater scope. This episode catalogs roughly 100 major types of Megastructure, from those that are cities in space to those that rival galaxies.

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The Megastructure Compendium
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 346, June 9, 2022
Written & Produced by Isaac Arthur
Narrated by Isaac Arthur & Sarah Fowler Arthur

Editors:
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Graeme Kilshaw
Sarah Fowler Arthur
Sig’unnr’s Deluge

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Fishy Tree
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Justin Dixon
Katie Byrne
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Mafic Studios
Mike Munt (Apogii)
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Stephen Huck
Steve Bowers
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The Megastructure Compendium (Narration Only)

The Megastructure Compendium

The Silurian Hypothesis contemplates how long the ruins of a civilization would be detectable, on Earth or even other worlds, and if we could ever know if a world had once been inhabited by a technological civilization. 

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The Silurian Hypothesis: What Traces of Humanity will be Left 50 Million Years from Now?
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 346a, June 12, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Darth Biomech
Jarred Eagley

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The Silurian Hypothesis: What Traces Of Humanity Will Be Left in 50 Million Years (Narration Only)

The Silurian Hypothesis: What Traces Of Humanity Will Be Left 50 Million Years From Now?

We continue our discussion of surveying for habitable exoplanets by touring our possible option for interstellar probes, dumb and smart, flyby and protracted orbital.
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Interstellar Probes
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 347, June 16, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
David McFarlane
Keith Blockus
Sig'Unnr

Cover Art:
Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier

Graphics by: 
Jeremy Jozwik
Rapid Thrash
Sergio Botero
Udo Schroeter

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"Red Giant", "Billions and Billions", "Cosmic Sunrise", "The Night Sky in Motion"
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"Expedtion" & "So Many Stars"

What Are Ancestor Simulations... And Are We Living In One

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