Podcast appearances and mentions of Andreas Mogensen

I denne episode af RumSnak skal vi høre om hvordan man udvikler avancerede instrumenter til at detektere gammastråling blandt andet fra Mælkevejens centrum. Gammastråler er en form for elektromagnetisk stråling med en bølgelængde under 0,1 nm. Gammastråling findes øverst i det elektromagnetiske spektrum, hvor bølgelængden er kortest, og frekvensen er højest. I rummet skabes gammastråling mange steder – neutronstjerner, sorte huller, supernovaer og så videre – og observation af disse fænomeners gammastråling kan måske – forhåbentlig – give os ny viden om universet. Postdoc Selina Owe fra DTU Space er på besøg i studiet for at forklare om gammastråling og gammadetektorer. Det er simpelthen en vidunderligt nørdet blanding af astrofysik og partikelfysik, elektronik og ingeniørvidenskab, og så lige med et stort drys algoritmer oven i. Vi skal dog også have et par aktuelle nyheder…blandt andet denne gang om nye NASA-missioner, Mars-støv, sorte huller og spændende observationer fra James Webb teleskopet (og hvem mon har den nyhed med?) Lyt med

Den danske astronaut Andreas Mogensen er en 'idiot' og 'fuldstændig retarderet', hvis man spørger Elon Musk. Musk og Trump mener, at to astronauter er blevet efterladt i rummet af Joe Biden af politiske årsager. Det passer ikke, ifølge Andreas Mogensen. Uenigheden bliver til en ordkrig på X. Men hvorfor sidder to astronauter på niende måned i rummet? Professor i astrofysik Anja C. Andersen fortæller om Mogensens og Musks rumkamp. Vært: Simon Stefanski. Program publiceret i DR Lyd d. 26. februar 2025.

Elon Musk Contro Andreas Mogensen: Ecco Perchè I Due Stanno Litigando!Scontro epocale tra Elon Musk e l'astronauta Andreas Mogensen dell'ESA. Insulti, accuse e polemiche sulla gestione della NASA. Ecco che cosa sta accadendo!#breakingnews #ultimenotizie #notiziedelgiorno #notizie #cronaca #astronauti #accuse #offese #andreasmorgensen #astronauta #bloccati #crew10 #crew9 #critiche #elonmusk #esa #forti #iss #nasa #parole #polemica #social #spacex #spazio #x

Mens vi arbejder på den ny sæson og I går og venter på den, får I lige en bonus-episode. Det er lykkedes os at få Andreas Mogensen i studiet igen. Andreas er blevet interviewet i stort set alle danske medier - så vi har tænkt over, hvordan vi kunne finde en ny og anderledes vinkel på opholdet på Den Internationale Rumstation. Vi tager i dagens afsnit med Andreas ud på missionen. Helt ned i de daglige rutiner og scener fra rumstationen. Så dette er et afsnit dedikeret til alle os ekspeditions- og rumnørder!Medvirkende:Andreas Mogensen, astronaut og medlem af Eventyrernes Klub. I marts 2024 returneredehan til jorden efter næsten 200 dage i rummet. Andreas nåede at gennemføre en langrække internationale videnskabelige eksperimenter og han var desuden både pilot påDragon- fartøjet, der førte ham og kollegaerne op til Den Internationale Rumstation, hvorhan også var kommandør.

Leitisstein fer í tónleikaliga ringrás saman við rúmdarfaranum Andreasi Mogensen. Andreas velur tónleik, ið honum dámar, og sum hann lurtaði eftir úti í rúmdini, meðan Leitisstein velur kendar rúmdarsangir. 

En kongestrategi i ATP – sjældent man deler holdninger med en socialdemokrat, en tyndhudet historie fra rummet og fuld sci-fi-movie, Andreas Mogensen melder ind i indbakken, de flytter det hele i DSV, og Bisse-Leif, dynamiske priser hos Oasis, en tidlig jul i Venezuela og et fly mindre, lavt til hest i Mongoliet, en guldhund i Turkmenistan, forfærdeligt, men ikke overrasket grise-nyt, hold igen med fukssvansen i Amazonas, ellers kommer pilene flyvende, et hval-hitjob, en solskinshistorie fra de paraolympiske lege og 5000 Danonino-yoghurt på Frederiksberg. Vil du høre hele episoden?Få 30 dages gratis prøveperiode (kan kun benyttes af nye Podimo-abonnenter): https://go.podimo.com/dk/hgdg(79 kroner herefter)Eller få 3 mdr. med 50% rabat (kan bruges af tidligere Podimo-abonnenter): https://go.podimo.com/dk/hgdgtilbud(79 kroner herefter)Værter: Esben Bjerre & Peter Falktoft Redigering: PodAmokKlip: PodAmokMusik: Her Går Det GodtInstagram: @hergaardetgodt @Peterfalktoft @Esbenbjerre

Rådmand: Ny trafikplan kalder på grundlæggende diskussioner om vores hverdag. Kommunerne får næste år fjernet 3,2 milliarder kroner. Samme beløb som blev tildelt kommunerne i foråret til velfærd. JP-Morgan varsler om stor risiko for recession, "ro på" siger seniorstrateg hos Nordea. Andreas Mogensen om strandede astronauter: De skal omstille sig. Værter: Christina Ankerhus & Silas MoodySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nouvel épisode Témoignage !Stephen Alamo est le seul médecin français de l'Agence Spatiale Européenne (ESA).Dans ce 1er épisode il nous raconte comment est ce qu'on devient médecin des astronautes!De Paris où il a débuté ses études de médecine, à Toulouse où il intègre le service de médecine d'urgence et l'Institut de Médecine Spatiales (MEDES/ CNES), il nous raconte comment sa vie d'urgentiste a pu lui servir pour atteindre l'ESA à Cologne et le site d'entraînement de Thomas Pesquet et des autres astronautes européens!Pour être prêt un rude entraînement sera réalisé en partie à Houston centre d'entrainement de la NASA.Pour finalement devenir le médecin de Andreas Mogensen, astronautes Danois.Il fera équipe avec un autre médecin : Alessandro Alcibiade.Leur mentor: Adrianos Golemis.Mais l'histoire commence quand?Avec son papa, en bout de piste de l'aeroport d'Orly à ecouter la tour de controle, et avec une passion folle pour l'histoire spatiale internationale.Un premier épisode qui nous ouvre les porte sur une 2eme partie dans laquelle il sera question de décollage de fusée en direction de l'ISS et de teleconsultation depuis l'espace !Incroyable!Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Digital Minds: Importance and Key Research Questions, published by Andreas Mogensen on July 3, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. by Andreas Mogensen, Bradford Saad, and Patrick Butlin 1. Introduction This post summarizes why we think that digital minds might be very important for how well the future goes, as well as some of the key research topics we think it might be especially valuable to work on as a result. We begin by summarizing the case for thinking that digital minds could be important. This is largely a synthesis of points that have already been raised elsewhere, so readers who are already familiar with the topic might want to skip ahead to section 3, where we outline what we see as some of the highest-priority open research questions. 2. Importance Let's define a digital mind as a conscious individual whose psychological states are due to the activity of an inorganic computational substrate as opposed to a squishy brain made up of neurons, glia, and the like.[1] By 'conscious', we mean 'phenomenally conscious.' An individual is phenomenally conscious if and only if there is something it is like to be that individual - something it feels like to inhabit their skin, exoskeleton, chassis, or what-have-you. In the sense intended here, there is something it is like to be having the kind of visual or auditory experience you're probably having now, to feel a pain in your foot, or to be dreaming, but there is nothing it is like to be in dreamless sleep. Digital minds obviously have an air of science fiction about them. If certain theories of consciousness are true (e.g., Block 2009; Godfrey-Smith 2016), digital minds are impossible. However, other theories suggest that they are possible (e.g. Tye 1995, Chalmers 1996), and many others are silent on the matter. While the authors of this post disagree about the plausibility of these various theories, we agree that the philosophical position is too uncertain to warrant setting aside the possibility of digital minds.[2] Even granting that digital minds are possible in principle, it's unlikely that current systems are conscious. A recent expert report co-authored by philosophers, neuroscientists, and AI researchers (including one of the authors of this post) concludes that the current evidence "does not suggest that any existing AI system is a strong candidate for consciousness." (Butlin et al. 2023: 6) Still, some residual uncertainty seems to be warranted - and obviously completely consistent with denying that any current system is a "strong candidate". Chalmers (2023) suggests it may be reasonable to give a probability in the ballpark of 5-10% to the hypothesis that current large language models could be conscious. Moreover, the current rate of progress in artificial intelligence gives us good reason to take seriously the possibility that digital minds will arrive soon. Systems appearing in the next decade might add a range of markers of consciousness, and Chalmers suggests the probability that we'll have digital minds within this time-frame might rise to at least 25%.[3] Similarly, Butlin et al. (2023) conclude that if we grant the assumption that consciousness can be realized by implementing the right computations, then "conscious AI systems could realistically be built in the near term."[4] It's possible that digital minds might arrive but exist as mere curiosities. Perhaps the kind of architectures that give rise to phenomenal consciousness will have little or no commercial value. We think it's reasonable to be highly uncertain on this point (see Butlin et al. 2023: §4.2 for discussion). Still, it's worth noting that some influential AI researchers have been pursuing projects that aim to increase AI capabilities by building systems that exhibit markers of consciousness, like a global workspace (Goyal and Bengi...

"Vi ska' ha' mere snaps" er måske en passende undertitel til dette afsnit.Vi hopper en lille tur tilbage til 2017, hvor det lykkes Anders & Anders at overtale Lars Løkke Rasmussen til at give Andreas Mogensen endnu en tur i rummet. Sådan husker de det i hvert fald.Der er premiere på den tvivlsomme quiz/selskabsleg "Gæt et storcenter". Der er lidt tvivl om oprindelsen af quizzen. Og reglerne...Andreas' besøg i Aftenshowet evalueres.Snapsen begynder så småt at virke. Det bliver både højrøstet og lavpandet. Så meget, at den gamle sav må tages i brug, for at få et nogenlunde sammenhængende afsnit. Nogenlunde! Der aftales ministerposter til 2030. Og ambassadørpost i Island. Og en kulturattaché i Washington.Og så viser det sig, at Andreas lever i et arrangeret ægteskabVærter: Anders Breinholt og Anders Lund Madsen

Den danske astronaut Andreas Mogensen er vendt tilbage til jorden efter ca. et halvt år på den internationale rumstation. Nu er Andreas tilbage i Danmark og videnskabsjournalist Jens Degett fra Science Stories har interviewet ham, om hvordan det er at opholde sig i rummet gennem længere tid i forhold til den første tur, der kun varede 10 dage. Andreas fortæller om arbejdsklimaet om rumsyge, om mikro tyngdekraft og hvordan det føles at møde den jordiske tyngdekraft, når man har svævet blandt skyerne i lang tid. Podcasten er en del af vores projekt "Historier om Dansk Rumforskning II" støttet af Otto Mønsteds Fond og Thomas B. Thriges Fond. Foto kredit: Jens Degett, © Science Stories ApS

Efter en lille forsinkelse er det blevet tid til julefrokosten 2023. Anders & Anders mødes med Lars Løkke Rasmussen og Andreas Mogensen på Restaurant Møntergade. Menuen står på øl, smørrebrød, snaps, øl, snaps, smørrebrød, øl, snaps og smørrebrød.Lund Madsen har aktier i et bryggeri i Greve. Så julefrokosten er en stor mulighed for at hæve omsætningen.Breinholt har fået kørekort til sin knallert. Bestod han mon første gang, eller dumpede han inden køreprøven overhovedet startede?For at undgå endnu en forsinket julefrokost foreslår Lars, at vi allerede nu aftaler at holde den i Köln. Til Oktoberfest."I rummet kan ingen høre dig skrige". Men det kunne Andreas, da en kollega vækkede hele rumstationen med et mareridt.Værter: Anders Breinholt og Anders Lund Madsen

This is a cross-post and you can see the original here, written in 2022. I am not the original author, but I thought it was good for more EAs to know about this. I am posting anonymously for obvious reasons, but I am a longstanding EA who is concerned about Torres's effects on our community. An incomplete summary Introduction. This post compiles evidence that Émile P. Torres, a philosophy student at Leibniz Universität Hannover in Germany, has a long pattern of concerning behavior, which includes gross distortion and falsification, persistent harassment, and the creation of fake identities. Note: Since Torres has recently claimed that they have been the target of threats from anonymous accounts, I would like to state that I condemn any threatening behavior in the strongest terms possible, and that I have never contacted Torres or posted anything about Torres other than in this Substack [...] ---Outline:(00:25) An incomplete summary(01:16) Stalking and harassment(01:20) Peter Boghossian(11:48) Helen Pluckrose(19:02) Demonstrable falsehoods and gross distortions(19:07) “Forcible” removal(24:04) “Researcher at CSER”(27:30) Giving What We Can(31:20) Brief Digression on Effective Altruism(33:53) More falsehoods and distortions(33:57) Hilary Greaves(38:25) Andreas Mogensen(41:16) Nick Beckstead(45:29) Tyler Cowen(48:50) Olle Häggström(56:44) Sockpuppetry(57:01) “Alex Williams”(01:03:57) Conclusion--- First published: May 1st, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/yAHcPNZzx35i25xML/emile-p-torres-s-history-of-dishonesty-and-harassment --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

Under et besøg på The Voice, forsøger Breinholt at lære tre kvindelige radio-medarbejdere hvad forspil er. Lund Madsen overvejer at få kropskunst udført. I Herning! Sundhedsmæssigt står det skidt til på den lille redaktion. Der er både slimsækbetændelse i hoften, sandorm i armen og den sædvanlige røde hud i ansigtet. Professor Jens Lundgren er på en særdeles svær opgave.Sidste års julefrokost er så småt ved at være planlagt. Vi dobbelttjekker lige med Andreas Mogensen. Eller er det AI-Mogensen der sidder på kontoret hos NASA?Værter: Anders Breinholt og Anders Lund Madsen

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: How to Resist the Fading Qualia Argument (Andreas Mogensen), published by Global Priorities Institute on March 26, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This paper was published as a GPI working paper in March 2024. Abstract The Fading Qualia Argument is perhaps the strongest argument supporting the view that in order for a system to be conscious, it does not need to be made of anything in particular, so long as its internal parts have the right causal relations to each other and to the system's inputs and outputs. I show how the argument can be resisted given two key assumptions: that consciousness is associated with vagueness at its boundaries and that conscious neural activity has a particular kind of holistic structure. I take this to show that what is arguably our strongest argument supporting the view that consciousness is substrate independent has important weaknesses, as a result of which we should decrease our confidence that consciousness can be realized in systems whose physical composition is very different from our own. Introduction Many believe that in order for a system to be conscious, it does not need to be made of anything in particular, so long as its internal parts have the right causal relations to each other and to the system's inputs and outputs. As a result, many also believe that the right software could in principle allow there to be something it is like to inhabit a digital computer, controlled by an integrated circuit etched in silicon. A recent expert report concludes that if consciousness requires only the right causal relations among a system's inputs, internal states, and outputs, then "conscious AI systems could realistically be built in the near term." (Butlin et al. 2023: 6) If that were to happen, it could be of enormous moral importance, since digital minds could have superhuman capacities for well-being and ill-being (Shulman and Bostrom 2021). But is it really plausible that any system with the right functional organization will be conscious - even if it is made of beer-cans and string (Searle 1980) or consists of a large assembly of people with walky-talkies (Block 1978)? My goal in this paper is to raise doubts about what I take to be our strongest argument supporting the view that consciousness is substrate independent in something like this sense.[1] The argument I have in mind is Chalmers' Fading Qualia Argument (Chalmers 1996: 253-263). I show how it is possible to resist the argument by appeal to two key assumptions: that consciousness is associated with vagueness at its boundaries and that conscious neural activity has a particular kind of holistic structure. Since these assumptions are controversial, I claim only to have exposed important weaknesses in the Fading Qualia Argument. I'll begin in section 2 by explaining what the Fading Qualia Argument is supposed to show and the broader dialectical context it inhabits. In section 3, I give a detailed presentation of the argument. In section 4, I show how the argument can be answered given the right assumptions about vagueness and the structure of conscious neural activity. At this point, I rely on the assumption that vagueness gives rise to truth-value gaps. In section 5, I explain how the argument can be answered even if we reject that assumption. In section 6, I say more about the particular assumption about the holistic structure of conscious neural activity needed to resist the Fading Qualia Argument in the way I outline. I take the need to rely on this assumption to be the greatest weakness of the proposed response. Read the rest of the paper ^ See the third paragraph in section 2 for discussion of two ways in which the conclusion supported by this argument is weaker than some may expect a principle of substrate independence to be. Thanks for listening. To help us out...

Vi kigger op mod himlen og ser både sol, måne, stjerner og måske Andreas Mogensen i denne udgave af Dig og mig og musicals

Lund Madsen er blevet velsignet med barn nummer 8. Vi byder lille Viis velkommen til verden. Breinholt har haft pressedag på sit nye tv-program. Vi tjekker en fed artikel der kom ud af det.Andreas Mogensen er tilbage på jorden. Det kan han fejre med en lang besked på telefonsvareren. Dagens tema er åbenbart pølser. Hvad blev der af den hvide slags, som hunde lavede i 80'erne? Breinholt har lavet en på vej hjem fra fødselsdagsfest hos en der hedder Thomas Theilgaard i Ølstykke. Lund Madsen har lavet en på bagstien ved barndomshuset i Sorgenfri en lørdag mellem 13 og 14. Og Tytte har fået en sur smiley for dårlig hygiejne i pølsevognen. Og så smager vi på et videnskabeligt vidunder: Lemon Snack. Værter: Anders Breinholt og Anders Lund Madsen

Victor Orban om Trump: Han kommer ikke til at donere en krone til Ukraine. Fåreavler har mistet 34 dyr: Vi skal lære at leve side om side med ulven. Andreas Mogensen vender hjem: "Han har fået sat et stort dansk aftryk deroppe". Ukraine har hårdt brug for våben, men EU tøver. Værter: Michael Robak & Kasper HarboeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lund Madsen er genopstået fra de døde. Det fejrer han ved at reklamere for endnu en uduelig scam.Der er nyt om sidste års julefrokost. Vi har endelig fået kontakt med Lars Løkke Rasmussen. Til gengæld har vi mistet kontakten med Andreas Mogensen. Det er stadig op ad bakke med den sammenkomst. En mulig serie-onanist er på spil på Bornholm. Ud fra signalementet finder vi frem til en mulig gerningsmand. Og ringer til ham.Breinholts uge har budt på første køretime på MC. Med en XS styrthjelm på et XL hoved. Og så er der problemer med kloakeringen. Noget der åbenbart kun kan løses med en FIRE METER lang stang!?!Værter: Anders Breinholt og Anders Lund Madsen

Rumstationen er åbenbart revnet, så der nu slipper ilt ud. Andreas Mogensen tager det forbavsende roligt. Breinholt påbegynder erhvervelse af kørekort til motorcykel. Han påstår det er for at kunne føre en Vespa-scooter. Og at det INTET har med en kommende midtlivskrise at gøre. Lund Madsens fætter har mistet hovedet i en rigtig grim Velo Solex-ulykke. En mystisk strømafbrydelse har ramt Østerbro. Det skal undersøges! Koste hvad det vil! Primært lyttere...Charlotte Nielsens hund er blevet angrebet af en rotte. Et "Op med humøret" sendes til Luna, der har en mor der hedder Charlotte, som har en hund. Det er muligvis slet ikke samme person. Ja, faktisk er det noget værre rod. Men humøret er godt.Værter: Anders Breinholt og Anders Lund Madsen

Familien Lund Madsen er i Thailand. Hvor mange der vender hjem er endnu uvist. For der er alt muligt, der kan dræbe dig, på måder du ikke engang har lyst til at vide. Breinholt bøvler med gulvvarmen i studiet. Og på toilettet. Der er rejsetips, hvis turen går til Aarhus. Især hvis du er til klokkespil.Andreas Mogensen rapporterer om toilet-uheld på rumstationen.Værter: Anders Breinholt og Anders Lund Madsen

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Why I'm skeptical about using subjective time experience to assign moral weights, published by Andreas Mogensen on January 22, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This post provides a summary of my working paper " Welfare and Felt Duration." The goal is to make the content of the paper more accessible and to add context and framing for an EA audience, including a more concrete summary of practical implications. It's also an invitation for you to ask questions about the paper and/or my summary of it, to which I'll try to reply as best I can below. What's the paper about? The paper is about how duration affects the goodness and badness of experiences that feel good or bad. For simplicity, I mostly focus on how duration affects the badness of pain. In some obvious sense, pains that go on for longer are worse for you. But we can draw some kind of intuitive distinction between how long something really takes and how long it is felt as taking. Suppose you could choose between two pains: one feels longer but is objectively shorter, and the other feels shorter but is objectively longer. Now the choice isn't quite so obvious. Still, some people are quite confident that you ought to choose the second: the one that feels shorter. They think it's how long a pain feels that's important, not how long it is. The goal of the paper is to argue that that confidence isn't warranted. Why is this important? This issue affects the moral weights assigned to non-human animals and digital minds. The case for thinking that subjective time experience varies across the animal kingdom is summarized in this excellent post by Jason Schukraft, which was a huge inspiration for this paper. One particular line of evidence comes from variation in the critical-flicker fusion frequency (CFF), the frequency at which a light source that's blinking on and off is perceived as continuously illuminated. Some birds and insects can detect flickering that you and I would completely miss unless we watched a slow motion recording. That might be taken to indicate that time passes more slowly from their subjective perspective, and so, if felt duration is what matters, that suggests we should give additional weight to the lifetime welfare of those animals. here. A number of people also argue that digital minds could experience time very differently from us, and here the differences could get really extreme. Because of the speed advantages of digital hardware over neural wetware, a digital mind could conceivably be run at speeds many orders of magnitude higher than the brain's own processing speed, which might again lead us to expect that time will be felt as passing much more slowly. As above, this may be taken to suggest that we should give those experiences significantly greater moral weight. paper on digital minds. What's the argument? You can think of the argument of the paper as having three key parts. Part 1: What is felt duration? The first thing I want to do in the paper is emphasize that we don't really have a very strong idea of what we're talking about when we talk about the subjective experience of time. That should make us skeptical of our intuitions about the ethical importance of felt duration. It seems clear that it doesn't matter in itself how much time you think has passed: e.g., if you think the pain went on for six minutes, but actually it lasted five. If subjective duration is going to matter, it can't be just a matter of your beliefs about time's passage. Something about the way the pain is experienced has got to be different. But what exactly? I expect you probably don't have an obvious answer to that question at your fingertips. I certainly don't. It's also worth noting that some psychologists who study time perception claim that we can't distinguish empirically between judged and felt durati...

Vært: Henrik Heide Medvirkende: Jens Ramskov, videnskabsjournalist, Ingeniøren Klip: Søren Rask Petersen I årets sidste Transformator sætter vi fokus på de største danske videnskabelige bidrag til forskningen i 2023. Ingeniøren har siden 2004 udpeget de fem bedste forskningsresultater inden for teknik og naturvidenskab udført af forskere i Danmark, eller hvor forskere fra Danmark har ydet et væsentligt bidrag som del af et internationalt forskningssamarbejde. Årets vigtigste danske forskningsresultat er opnået af et hold på omkring 40 forskere under ledelse af Eske Willerslev, DNA-forsker og professor i geogenetik ved Københavns Universitet. Ved hjælp af såkalt shotgunsekventering er det lykkedes forskerne ud fra ca. to millioner år gammel DNA i jordprøver fra Kap København i det nordligste Grønland at identificere i alt 102 planteslægter, otte dyre-taksa og koraller samt mikroorganismer. Med førsteforfatterens egne ord var det mindblowing, da en af DNA-strengene viste sig at tilhøre en elefantlignende mastodont. Blandt de fire øvrige nominerede forskningsresultater finder vi: Det familiære og erotiske kys er mindst 4.500 år gammelt og forhistoriske figurer indikerer, at det kan være langt ældre. Det har et dansk forskerægtepar dokumenteret og imødegik dermed en teori fremsat af en britisk ledet forskergruppe om, at det erotiske kys gik sin sejrsgang i Bronzealderen 1000 år f.v.t. En forskergruppe på DTU Bioengineering har præsenteret et gennembrud inden for nye måder at fremstille modgift mod slangegift på. I stedet for at tappe antistoffer fra dyr, man har sprøjtet med slangegift, kan man nu tilføre specifikke toksiner fra slangegiften til en stor gruppe af menneskelige antistoffer og arbejde videre med de antistoffer, der kan binde til toksinerne. En matematisk analyse udført af søskendeparret Susanne og Peter Ditlevsen, begge professorer ved Københavns Universitet i henholdsvis matematik (statistik) og klimafysik, viser, at det store system af havstrømme ved navn AMOC risikerer at gå i stå i midten af dette århundrede, hvis den nuværende udvikling fortsætter. Ph.d.-studerende Albert Sneppen ved Niels Bohr Institutet har undersøgt sammenstødet mellem to neutronstjerner 140 millioner lysår borte, der i 2017 gav rystelser i rumtiden. I en meget citeret forskningsartikel kunne han vise, at eksplosionen mod forventning ikke var formet som en disk, men havde en sfærisk geometri. Til slut gennemgår vi de vigtigste teknologiske nyheder og tendenser i året der gik. 2023 blev et år med sus i. Mest for dem ved østvendte kyster, men også for it-folk, der med generativ AI nu har fået superkræfter. Vi fik PFAS i æg og en tvivlsom superleder – og oven over alting svæver Andreas Mogensen. Links Nedenstående artikler vil blive offentliggjort i løbet af juledagene VINDER i Videnskabens Top-5: For to millioner år siden levede elefanternes forfædre i Grønland Artikel i Nature med Eske Willerslev-gruppens forskningsresultater NOMINERET: Kysset er mindst 4.500 år gammelt NOMINERET: En bredspektret modgift mod slangebid NOMINERET: Der er fare for, at AMOC går i stå NOMINERET: En ualmindelig usædvanlig kosmisk eksplosion Året der gik – tilbageblik på 2023

I denne episode har RumSnak-redaktionen været på udflugt på Center for Star and Planet Formation (StarPlan), på Øster Voldgade i København. Centrets formål er selvfølgelig at gøre os klogere på, hvordan stjerner og planeter opstår, inklusive Jorden selv. Og netop Jordens oprindelse er fokus for en række nyere af centrets artikler – artikler som mener at kunne påvise at Jorden blev dannet meget hurtigere end man hidtil har antaget, på få millioner år i stedet for 50-100 millioner år. For at høre mere om teorierne besøgte vi professor og centerleder Martin Bizzarro i hans lune hjørnekontor på Starplan, og fik også en kort rundtur til nogle af de laboratorier, blandt andet kemilaboratoriet, hvor Martin og hans kolleger undersøger meteoritter og støvprøver fra asteroider. Martin har nemlig tidligere været med til at analysere materiale fra asteroiden Ryugu og venter også på en lille leverance fra asteroiden Bennu… God fornøjelse

Der er en lidt mystisk, nærmest trykket, stemning i studiet. Producer Julie er nemlig i snakke-strejke.Noget er gået galt med pakken med julegodter til Andreas Mogensen. Rumhyggen hænger i en tynd tråd. Breinholt har fået bananfluer. Lund Madsen har en løsning. En lettere omstændig en af slagsen. Kalinka har vundet VM i mis i Strasbourg. Her blev missen kysset af mange. Vi taler med missens ejer. Og så lærer du, hvorfor du aldrig skal lade Jan Hellesøe vælge din mis. Og det er muligvis også det eneste du lærer i dette afsnit.Værter: Anders Breinholt og Anders Lund Madsen

Den Internationale Rumstation ISS er først og fremmest et svævende rumlaboratorium i omløb om Jorden, hvor vi kan lave alskens eksperimenter i vægtløs tilstand. Så når 244 mennesker indtil videre har fået lov at besøge ISS, så er det først og fremmest for at kunne udføre hundredevis af små og støre forsøg – ligesom rumstationen jo også i sig selv er en slags videnskabeligt eksperiment. Vi har forbindelse igennem et in-flight call til Andreas Mogensen oppe på ISS, hvor han fortæller om hvordan det foregår når han som forskernes fortrop skal udføre massevis af forsøg i det vægtløse miljø. Men astronauterne og kosmonauterne på ISS får hjælp af et kæmpe hold af mennesker på Jorden, som har hver deres speciale. Der er både forskere, ingeniører, programmører, assistenter, bureaukrater og mange flere, som er dybt involveret i arbejdet med ISS. I denne episode af RumSnak sætter vi fokus på nogle af de danske forsøg, der aktuelt er oppe på ISS – og vi skal særligt høre om en aktivitetsmåler fra Danish Aerospace Company og om en søvntracker fra Aarhus Universitet. Det er Mads Toudal Frandsen (SDU), Kaare Mikkelsen (AU) og Thomas A. E. Andersen (Danish Aerospace Company) der fortæller. Lyt med på RumSnak LIVE, optaget på SDU den 8. november 2023

Andreas Mogensen har fejret fødselsdag ombord på ISS. Er der lys i kagen? Og hvad sker der, når man "taber" en værkstøjskasse under en rumvrandring?Det er igen blevet populært at have klamydia...åbenbart. Specielt i Aalborg. Vi taler med læge Jakob om den, for os, helt ukendte infektion. I et forsøg på at lave et "Op med humøret"-øjeblik, ringer vi til tidligere klamydiabærende Nicoline. Det virker dog som om, den dårlige sex var et større problem end den medfølgende smitte. Og hvad er et svensk kys egentlig?Værter: Anders Breinholt og Anders Lund Madsen

Breinholt er blevet klonet af AI (påstår han), og reklamerer nu for et tarveligt slankemiddel på internettet. Lund Madsen klones også, og afslører sin morbide hobby. Det er et højteknologisk mirakel. Som naturligvis straks skal misbruges til ligegyldigheder.Andreas Mogensen er med i Rumbrevkassen...fra rummet... og svarer på spørgsmål fra lytterne. Kan det mon lade sig gøre, at få Andreas med til årets julefrokost? Og kan vi få sendt en lille flaske snaps op til ham?Værter: Anders Breinholt og Anders Lund Madsen

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Philosophical considerations relevant to valuing continued human survival: Conceptual Analysis, Population Axiology, and Decision Theory (Andreas Mogensen), published by Global Priorities Institute on November 1, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This paper was published as a GPI working paper in September 2023. Introduction Many think that human extinction would be a catastrophic tragedy, and that we ought to do more to reduce extinction risk. There is less agreement on exactly why. If some catastrophe were to kill everyone, that would obviously be horrific. Still, many think the deaths of billions of people don't exhaust what would be so terrible about extinction. After all, we can be confident that billions of people are going to die - many horribly and before their time - if humanity does not go extinct. The key difference seems to be that they will be survived by others. What's the importance of that? Some take the view that the special moral importance of preventing extinction is explained in terms of the value of increasing the number of flourishing lives that will ever be lived, since there could be so many people in the vast future available to us (see Kavka 1978; Sikora 1978; Parfit 1984; Bostrom 2003; Ord 2021: 43-49). Others emphasize the moral importance of conserving existing things of value and hold that humanity itself is an appropriate object of conservative valuing (see Cohen 2012; Frick 2017). Many other views are possible (see esp. Scheer 2013, 2018). However, not everyone is so sure that human extinction would be regrettable. In the final section of the last book published in his lifetime, Parfit (2011: 920-925) considers what can actually be said about the value of all future history. No doubt, people will continue to suffer and despair. They will also continue to experience love and joy. Will the good be sufficient to outweigh the bad? Will it all be worth it? Parfit's discussion is brief and inconclusive. He leans toward 'Yes,' writing that our "descendants might, I believe, make the future very good." (Parfit 2011: 923) But 'might' falls far short of 'will'. Others are confidently pessimistic. Some take the view that human lives are not worth starting because of the suffering they contain. Benatar (2006) adopts an extreme version of this view, which I discuss in section 3.3. He claims that "it would be better, all things considered, if there were no more people (and indeed no more conscious life)." (Benatar 2006: 146) Scepticism about the disvalue of human extinction is especially likely to arise among those concerned about our effects on non-human animals and the natural world. In his classic paper defending the view that all living things have moral status, Taylor (1981: 209) argues, in passing, that human extinction would "most likely be greeted with a hearty 'Good riddance!' " when viewed from the perspective of the biotic community as a whole. May (2018) argues similarly that because there "is just too much torment wreaked upon too many animals and too certain a prospect that this is going to continue and probably increase," we should take seriously the idea that human extinction would be morally desirable. Our abysmal treatment of non-human animals may also be thought to bode ill for our potential treatment of other kinds of minds with whom we might conceivably share the future and view primarily as tools: namely, minds that might arise from inorganic computational substrates, given suitable developments in the field of artificial intelligence (Saad and Bradley forthcoming). This paper takes up the question of whether and to what extent the continued existence of humanity is morally desirable. For the sake of brevity, I'll refer to this as the value of the future , leaving the assumption that we conditionalize on human survival impl...

Danmarks eneste podcast med fast forbindelse til Den Internationale Rumstation.Lund Madsen er i København. Breinholt på Bornholm. Og Andreas et eller andet sted i rummet. Store og små spørgsmål besvares. Liv og død. Bogstaveligt talt. For hvad sker der, hvis en astronaut dør ombord på rumstationen? Andreas' rumvandring blev aflyst. I stedet har han fået andre opgaver. F.eks. oprydning og afrimning af fryser.Har Andreas en hemmelig Instagram-konto, hvorfra han sender halvlumre beskeder til Breinholt?Og kan man egentlig gå og hænge med hovedet i vægtløs tilstand?Har du spørgsmål til rumbrevkassen, så find Anders & Anders Podcast på sociale medier. Værter: Anders Breinholt og Anders Lund Madsen

Der er igen gang i rum-brevkassen. Andreas Mogensen svarer på dine spørgsmål, direkte fra ISS.Kan en oldboys-fodboldspiller sende en bold i kredsløb? Hvad sker der, når man prutter i rummet? Vi lærer, hvordan man tømmer toilet-spanden på rumstationen. Og så er der en kort nyhedsopdatering, med væsentlige historier fra Danmark.Lund Madsen har prøvet en ny kinesisk elbil. Det var en begrænset succes. Det var som at tale til en dør. Eller tekniker Henning.For at undgå at afsnittet bliver for kort, bliver de sidste minutter meeeeeeget laaaaange. En Danpo-reklame fra 1996 analyseres...dybt!Hvis du vil høre hele afsnittet, så kom over på Podimo. Her finder du et godt tilbud på 30 dage gratis! Brug det her link, så lyttes vi ved på Podimo: https://go.podimo.com/dk/andersogandersKærlig hilsen Anders og Anders

Lund Madsen er sendt i isolation i Fredericia. Det forlyder, at hans skæg er en tikkende bakteriebombe. Måske er det derfor politiet afspærrer området omkring ham. Vi taler med Professor Lundgren om det farlige skæg. Men afbrydes af opkald fra rummet. For det er tid til den første rum-brevkasse med Andreas Mogensen, direkte fra ISS.Det viser sig, at en ble ikke fungerer helt optimalt i vægtløs tilstand. Og hvad gør man egentlig med spisning, tisning, rygning og rejsning ombord på rumstationen. Og i den forbindelse, en kort historie om et fåreskind der led en grum skæbne på unge Madsens værelse.Hvis du vil høre hele afsnittet, så kom over på Podimo. Her finder du et godt tilbud på 30 dage gratis! Brug det her link, så lyttes vi ved på Podimo: https://go.podimo.com/dk/andersogandersKærlig hilsen Anders og Anders

Andreas Mogensen er ombord på rumstationen. Eller er det et filmstudie i Værløse? Kommende interviews planlægges grundigt.Månedens medarbejder kåres. Åbenbart...Breinholt har været til VM i badminton. Lund Madsen blærer sig med Lene Køppens autograf. Vi ringer til Poul-Erik Høyer (og hans kæreste). For hvad sker der egentlig med maskot-ænderne efter stævnet? Er de til salg? Samtalen tager en uventet drejning.Og husk: Man skal ikke skue hånden med hårene, før hunden rigtig har bidt dig.Hvis du vil høre hele afsnittet, så kom over på Podimo. Her finder du et godt tilbud på 30 dage gratis! Brug det her link, så lyttes vi ved på Podimo: https://go.podimo.com/dk/andersogandersKærlig hilsen Anders og Anders

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov arrived at the International Space Station as the SpaceX Dragon, named Endurance, docked to the complex at 9:16 a.m. EDT Sunday while the station was 261 statute miles over Queensland, Australia.

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov arrived at the International Space Station as the SpaceX Dragon, named Endurance, docked to the complex at 9:16 a.m. EDT Sunday while the station was 261 statute miles over Queensland, Australia.

Lørdag morgen den 26. august drog astronaut Andreas Mogensen afsted mod Den Internationale Rumstation, siddende på toppen af en Falcon 9-raket fra SpaceX sammen med resten af Crew-7. RumSnak er ikke med i Crew Dragon-modulet – men næsten: Tina var med ovre på Kennedy Space Center for at opleve opsendelsen på nærmeste hold, og det skal vi selvfølgelig rumsnakke meget mere om i denne episode. Udover at tale om selve opsendelsen skal vi også høre et par korte interviews fra Kennedy Space Center, og der er også plads til et par korte rumnyheder. God vind, Andreas – og god lytning

Den danske astronaut, Andreas Mogensen, er på vej op til den Internationale Rumstation. Inden opsendelsen måtte han vælge sit sidste måltid - Beef Wellington. Hvad får dine tænder til at løbe i vand? Vi får de lækreste menuer præsenteret. Signe undrer sig over, om man selv er klar over, hvis man er typen, der kommer for sent. Vi taler om Miley Cyrus nyeste udgivelse, samt taler vi om nogle af hendes episoder i hendes liv.

Da Andreas Mogensen var i Danmark for et par måneder siden optog Science Stories dette interview. Det giver et godt indtryk af hvor spændende men også udfordrende livet som astronaut bliver for Andreas Mogensen det næste halve år. Mange gemmer måske på en stor drøm om at komme op og flyve i vægtløs tilstand i rummet. Men når man hører om arbejdsvilkårene for en astronaut, så virker det knapt så glamourøst. Den danske astronaut Andreas Mogensen fortæller i dette interview til videnskabsjournalist Jens Degett om hvordan det føles at arbejde i rummet, om forskningen, oplevelserne og om mulighederne for at komme op på den internationale rumstation ISS og lave sine egne forsøg, hvis man er forsker. Foto kredit: Jens Degett, © Science Stories ApS. Podcasten er en del af vores projekt "Historier om Dansk Rumforskning" støttet af Otto Mønsteds Fond og Thomas B. Thriges Fond.

Anders og Anders er tilbage i København. I mellemtiden er Andreas Mogensen fløjet til Florida. Det logistiske mareridt fortsætter. Vi fanger Andreas 46 timer før planlagt opsendelse.Kender du til Floridas Skunk Ape? Ikke mange gør. Og endnu færre har set den. Eller lugtet den. Tag med Anders og Anders på tur i denne potentielt prisvindende audiofoniske roadmovie. To mænd i deres bedste alder, en Skunk Ape, en mudpuppy, merchandise, alligatoren Grumpy og verdens næst-største/tykkeste pytonslange.Hvis du vil høre hele afsnittet, så kom over på Podimo. Her finder du et godt tilbud på 30 dage gratis! Brug det her link, så lyttes vi ved på Podimo: https://go.podimo.com/dk/andersogandersKærlig hilsen Anders og Anders

Fredag i denne uge skriver Andreas Mogensen historie, når han som den første ikke-amerikaner står i spidsen for en amerikansk rummission. For at turen fra Florida til Den Internationale Rumstation kan lykkes, kræver det et utal af lavpraktiske rutiner og højteknologiske tricks. Og så kræver den faktisk også en række sære ritualer, der umiddelbart ikke har meget med raketvidenskab at gøre. I dette afsnit af ‘Du lytter til Politiken' fortæller Politikens videnskabsredaktør Lasse Foghsgaard om missionen, og hvordan man egentlig lander på en rumstation, der farer rundt om Jorden med 28.000 kilometer i timen.

Anders og Anders er rejst til Florida. Iført lidt for korte (og stramme) shorts og oppustet mave.Der er voldsom bøvl med kvitteringer. Og lidt usikre blikke fra en kvinde i hotellets restaurant.Andreas Mogensen er i karantæne hjemme i Houston. Blot et stenkast (på 1500km) fra Anders og Anders. Som altid; perfekt planlægning.Er rumstationen virkelig "en rodebunke" og "et hoarder-mareridt"? Det mener Lund Madsen at have hørt.Breinholt tilbyder sine talenter som au-pair i husstanden, mens Andreas er bortrejst.Og vokser hår med normal hastighed i vægtløs tilstand?Hvis du vil høre hele afsnittet, så kom over på Podimo. Her finder du et godt tilbud på 30 dage gratis! Brug det her link, så lyttes vi ved på Podimo: https://go.podimo.com/dk/andersogandersKærlig hilsen Anders og Anders

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The weight of suffering (Andreas Mogensen), published by Global Priorities Institute on August 17, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This paper was originally published as a working paper in May 2022 and is forthcoming in The Journal of Philosophy. Abstract How should we weigh suffering against happiness? This paper highlights the existence of an argument from intuitively plausible axiological principles to the striking conclusion that in comparing different populations, there exists some depth of suffering that cannot be compensated for by any measure of well-being. In addition to a number of structural principles, the argument relies on two key premises. The first is the contrary of the so-called Reverse Repugnant Conclusion. The second is a principle according to which the addition of any population of lives with positive welfare levels makes the outcome worse if accompanied by sufficiently many lives that are not worth living. I consider whether we should accept the conclusion of the argument and what we may end up committed to if we do not, illustrating the implications of the conclusions for the question of whether suffering in aggregate outweighs happiness among human and non-human animals, now and in future. Introduction There is both great happiness and great suffering in this world. Which has the upper hand? Does the good experienced by human and non-human animals in aggregate counterbalance all the harms they suffer, so that the world is morally good on balance? Or is the moral weight of suffering greater? To answer this question, we need to know how to weigh happiness against suffering from the moral point of view. In this paper, I present an argument from intuitively plausible axiological principles to the conclusion that in comparing different populations, there exists some depth of lifetime suffering that cannot be counterbalanced by any amount of well-being experienced by others. Following Ord (2013), I call this view lexical threshold negative utilitarianism (LTNU). I don't claim that we should accept LTNU. My aim is to explore different ways of responding to the argument. As we'll see, the positions at which we may arrive in rejecting its premises can be nearly as interesting and as striking as the conclusion. In section 2, I define LTNU more rigorously and set out the argument. It relies on a number of structural principles governing the betterness relation on populations, together with two key premises. The first is the contrary of what Carlson (1998) and Mulgan (2002) call the Reverse Repugnant Conclusion (RRC). The second says, roughly, that the addition of lives with positive welfare levels makes the outcome worse if accompanied by sufficiently many lives that are not worth living. In section 3, I consider whether we should be willing to accept the argument's conclusion, especially given that LTNU has been thought to entail the desirability of human extinction or the extinction of all sentient life (Crisp 2021). In section 4, I discuss our options forrejecting the argument's structural principles. I argue that our options for avoiding the disturbing implications of LTNU discussed in section 3 are limited if we are restricted to rejecting one or more of these principles. In section 5, I consider the possibility of rejecting the first of the key non-structural premises. I focus on the possibility of rejecting the contrary of RRC without accepting RRC. This, I claim, is also not promising, considered as a way of avoiding the disturbing implications of LTNU discussed in section 3. I will have nothing original to say about RRC per se, except that the overarching argument of this paper may be taken as a reason to accept it. In section 6, I consider the possibility of rejecting the last remaining premise. Specifically, I consider the possibility t...

Uden mad og drikke, dur astronauten ikke – og i denne første episode i sæson 9 ser vi nærmere på rummad. For på trods af udviklingen de sidste 50-60 års tid er der stadig lang vej endnu før rumkosten er både holdbar, næringsrig, mættende og ikke mindst velsmagende. Der bliver dog arbejdet på sagerne, også her i Danmark. RumSnak har været på besøg hos Thorsten Schmidt, der er kok og ejer af restaurant Barr på Christianshavn. Thorsten lavede for 8 års tid siden en tre-retters middag til Andreas' første mission og har også været involveret i at lave noget særligt til Huginn-missionen i år. Udover rummad har vi selvfølgelig også korte rumnyheder og bonus – denne gang blandt andet om rumturisme, solvejr og Marsbaser. LINKS NYHEDER Russisk rummission til Månens sydpol (https://www.space.com/russia-luna-25-moon-mission-launch-success) Virgin Galactic sender nyt hold rumturister afsted (https://www.space.com/virgin-galactic-galactic02-launch-success) Masser af energi fra Solen (https://www.space.com/sun-blasts-highest-energy-radiation-ever-recorded-raising-questions-solar-physics) Rapport fra "Mars"-mission i Texas (https://www.space.com/nasa-chapea-analog-mars-mission-one-month-interview) Sådan laver de holdbare underhylere til fremtidens astronauter (https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Keeping_your_underwear_clean_on_the_Moon) BOG

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The Hinge of History Hypothesis: Reply to MacAskill (Andreas Mogensen), published by Global Priorities Institute on August 8, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This paper was originally published as a working paper in August 2022 and is forthcoming in Analysis. Abstract Some believe that the current era is uniquely important with respect to how well the rest of human history goes. Following Parfit, call this the Hinge of History Hypothesis. Recently, MacAskill has argued that our era is actually very unlikely to be especially influential in the way asserted by the Hinge of History Hypothesis. I respond to MacAskill, pointing to important unresolved ambiguities in his proposed definition of what it means for a time to be influential and criticizing the two arguments used to cast doubt on the claim that the current era is a uniquely important moment in human history. Introduction Some believe that the current era is a uniquely important moment in human history. We are living, they claim, at a time of unprecedented risk, heralded by the advent of nuclear weapons and other world-shaping technologies. Only by responding wisely to the anthropogenic risks we now face can we survive into the future and fulfil our potential as a species (Sagan 1994; Parfit 2011, Bostrom 2014, Ord 2020). Following Parfit (2011), call the hypothesis that we live at such a uniquely important time the Hinge of History Hypothesis (3H). Recently, MacAskill (2022) has argued that 3H is "quite unlikely to be true." (332) He interprets 3H as the claim that "[w]e are among the very most influential people ever, out of a truly astronomical number of people who will ever live" (339) and defines a period of time as influential in proportion to "how much expected good one can do with the direct expenditure (rather than investment) of a unit of resources at [that] time" (335), where 'investment' may refer "to both financial investment, and to using one's time to grow the number of people who are also impartial altruists." (335 n.13) MacAskill thus relates the truth or falsity of 3H to the practical question of the optimal time at which to expend resources to achieve morally good outcomes, considered impartially. MacAskill presents two arguments against 3H. The first is an argument that the prior probability that we are living at the most influential time in history should be very low, because we should reason as if we represent a random sample from observers in our reference class. The second is an inductive argument that we should expect future people to have more influence over human history because the overall trend throughout human history is for later generations to be more influential. In my view, neither of these arguments should convince us. As I argue in section 2, MacAskill's priors argument relies on formulating 3H in a way that does not conform to how this hypothesis is traditionally understood. Moreover, I will argue in section 3 that MacAskill's definition of what it means for a time to be influential leaves too many unresolved ambiguities for his inductive argument to work. Read the rest of the paper Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org

We're just a few weeks away for the Crew-7 mission, the seventh operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft. SpaceX's Crew Dragon is a reusable spacecraft designed to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station. It is part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, which aims to provide safe, reliable, and cost-effective transportation to and from the ISS. Crew Dragon is capable of carrying up to seven astronauts and is equipped with advanced features such as touch screen controls, an environmental control and life support system, and a launch escape system. The spacecraft is launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket and returns to Earth by splashing down in the ocean. Since its first crewed flight in May 2020, Crew Dragon has successfully transported multiple crews to the ISS, including the upcoming Crew-7 mission. This mission will transport four astronauts to the International Space Station: Jasmin Moghbeli from NASA, Andreas Mogensen from ESA (European Space Agency), Satoshi Furukawa from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), and Konstantin Borisov from Roscosmos. The launch is currently targeted for August 17th and will take place at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In this episode I'm pleased to present my recent interview with Crew 7 pilot Andreas Mogensen. This will be his second trip to space, following his 10-day ISS mission in 2015 where he became the first Danish citizen in space. During the Crew-7 mission, Andreas will be responsible for the spacecraft's performance and systems, and will become the first European to serve as the pilot of a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. In addition, Andreas will take over as Station Commander of the ISS in September. In this interview, we will discuss Andreas' role in the Crew-7 mission, his passion for space exploration, and some of the experiments that he will conduct on board the International Space Station during the 6-month mission. For more info, visit Nasa.gov Esa.int ——————————————————————

Otte år efter sin første rummission vender den danske astronaut Andreas Mogensen tilbage til Den Internationale Rumstation i august.I takt med, at den nervepirrende raketopsendelse for alvor nærmer sig, er chancen for, at den danske astronaut skal på rumvandring blevet større.Hør videnskabsredaktør, Lasse Foghsgaard, læse sit portrætinterview højt med den danske astronaut, Andreas Mogensen. 

Vi har fået os en rigtig god ven fra Vestegnen. Den ven er Talib, og han er altid i godt humør - og han står altid klar til at hjælpe. Vi ringer til ham! Siden samtalen med Andreas Mogensen i sidste uge, har der været forvirring og panik hos Anders og Anders om hvornår Andreas skal sendes ud i rummet. Der skal afklaring til, så et opkald til USA er uundgåeligt. Værter: Anders Breinholt og Anders Lund MadsenTilrettelægger: Zina HameedSoMe: Andreas GrønningProducer: Peter Ørbæk

Det er de tunge drenge som er i huset på denne skønne sommeraften på Scandic Spectrum. Aarhuship-hip-legenderne LOC, Marwan og USO tager scenen, og så er der endelig hul igennem til Andreas Mogensen i USA!Værter: Anders Breinholt og Anders Lund MadsenGæster: Andreas Mogensen, LOC, USO og MarwanTilrettelæggelse: Zina HameedSoMe: Andreas GrønningProducer: Jakob RanumRedaktør: Mette Søndergaard

Effective altruism, in a slogan, aims to 'do the most good.' Utilitarianism, in a slogan, says we should act to 'produce the greatest good for the greatest number.' It's clear enough why utilitarians should be interested in the project of effective altruism. But what about the many people who reject utilitarianism? Today's guest, Andreas Mogensen — moral philosopher at Oxford University's All Souls College — rejects utilitarianism, but as he explains, this does little to dampen his enthusiasm for the project of effective altruism. Links to learn more, summary and full transcript. Andreas leans towards 'deontological' or rule-based theories of ethics, rather than 'consequentialist' theories like utilitarianism which look exclusively at the effects of a person's actions. Like most people involved in effective altruism, he parts ways with utilitarianism in rejecting its maximal level of demandingness, the idea that the ends justify the means, and the notion that the only moral reason for action is to benefit everyone in the world considered impartially. However, Andreas believes any plausible theory of morality must give some weight to the harms and benefits we provide to other people. If we can improve a stranger's wellbeing enormously at negligible cost to ourselves and without violating any other moral prohibition, that must be at minimum a praiseworthy thing to do. In a world as full of preventable suffering as our own, this simple 'principle of beneficence' is probably the only premise one needs to grant for the effective altruist project of identifying the most impactful ways to help others to be of great moral interest and importance. As an illustrative example Andreas refers to the Giving What We Can pledge to donate 10% of one's income to the most impactful charities available, a pledge he took in 2009. Many effective altruism enthusiasts have taken such a pledge, while others spend their careers trying to figure out the most cost-effective places pledgers can give, where they'll get the biggest 'bang for buck'. For someone living in a world as unequal as our own, this pledge at a very minimum gives an upper-middle class person in a rich country the chance to transfer money to someone living on about 1% as much as they do. The benefit an extremely poor recipient receives from the money is likely far more than the donor could get spending it on themselves. What arguments could a non-utilitarian moral theory mount against such giving? Many approaches to morality will say it's permissible not to give away 10% of your income to help others as effectively as is possible. But if they will almost all regard it as praiseworthy to benefit others without giving up something else of equivalent moral value, then Andreas argues they should be enthusiastic about effective altruism as an intellectual and practical project nonetheless. In this conversation, Andreas and Rob discuss how robust the above line of argument is, and also cover: • Should we treat thought experiments that feature very large numbers with great suspicion? • If we had to allow someone to die to avoid preventing the World Cup final from being broadcast to the world, is that permissible? • What might a virtue ethicist regard as 'doing the most good'? • If a deontological theory of morality parted ways with common effective altruist practices, how would that likely be? • If we can explain how we came to hold a view on a moral issue by referring to evolutionary selective pressures, should we disbelieve that view? Get this episode by subscribing to our podcast on the world's most pressing problems and how to solve them: type 80,000 Hours into your podcasting app. Producer: Keiran Harris Audio mastering: Ben Cordell and Beppe Rådvik Transcriptions: Katy Moore