Podcast appearances and mentions of Greg Egan

Anthony Ha joins us to discuss the first eight stories in the book The Best of Greg Egan, part of the SF Masterworks series of science fiction classics. Stories discussed: "Learning to Be Me" (20:42), "Axiomatic" (44:03), "Appropriate Love" (50:10), "Into Darkness" (1:00:30), "Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies" (1:14:47), "Closer" (1:26:42), "Chaff" (1:38:50), "Luminous" (1:52:12). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you like gritty cyberpunk settings, a page-turning, action-driven plot, and a lot of visceral explorations of violence and sexuality, this one's for you. If you're looking for deep characters, a carefully crafted plot, or philosophical ideas, this might not be your next read.As always, no spoilers until the end when we get into the full plot explanation and discussion. This episode is sponsored by The Pythagorean by Alexander Morpheigh, which is available in print or kindle edition here.Join the Hugonauts book club on discord!Or you can watch the episode on YouTube if you prefer videoSimilar books we recommend: Neuromancer by William GibsonTitanium Noir by Nick HarkawayPermutation City by Greg Egan

【欢迎订阅】每天早上5:30，准时更新。【阅读原文】标题:What will humans do if technology solves everything?Welcome to a high-tech utopia正文：In “permutation city”, a novel by Greg Egan, the character Peer, having achieved immortality within a virtual reality over which he has total control, finds himself terribly bored. So he engineers himself to have new passions. One moment he is pushing the boundaries of higher mathematics; the next he is writing operas. “He'd even been interested in the Elysians [the afterlife], once. No longer. He preferred to think about table legs.” Peer's fickleness relates to a deeper point. When technology has solved humanity's deepest problems, what is left to do?知识点：utopia/juːˈtəʊpɪə/If you refer to an imaginary situation as a utopia, you mean that it is one in which society is perfect and everyone is happy. 理想社会; 乌托邦• We weren‘t out to design a contemporary utopia. 我们不想去设计⼀个当代乌托邦。获取外刊的完整原文以及精讲笔记，请关注微信公众号「早安英文」，回复“外刊”即可。更多有意思的英语干货等着你！【节目介绍】《早安英文-每日外刊精读》，带你精读最新外刊，了解国际最热事件：分析语法结构，拆解长难句，最接地气的翻译，还有重点词汇讲解。所有选题均来自于《经济学人》《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》《华盛顿邮报》《大西洋月刊》《科学杂志》《国家地理》等国际一线外刊。【适合谁听】1、关注时事热点新闻，想要学习最新最潮流英文表达的英文学习者2、任何想通过地道英文提高听、说、读、写能力的英文学习者3、想快速掌握表达，有出国学习和旅游计划的英语爱好者4、参加各类英语考试的应试者（如大学英语四六级、托福雅思、考研等）【你将获得】1、超过1000篇外刊精读课程，拓展丰富语言表达和文化背景2、逐词、逐句精确讲解，系统掌握英语词汇、听力、阅读和语法3、每期内附学习笔记，包含全文注释、长难句解析、疑难语法点等，帮助扫除阅读障碍。

Chaque année, le festival Les Intergalactiques met à l'honneur une maison d'édition de littératures de l'imaginaire, avec des auteur·ice·s invité·e·s, une sélection de fonds sur le salon du livre et une table-ronde qui lui est tout spécialement consacrée. Un an après la sémillante Dystoteam qui illustra le récit de sa création d'une savante métaphore impliquant L'Agence tout risque et un lance-patates, place à l'équipe du Bélial' à qui la barre est donc mise assez haut côté anecdotes savoureuses… Maison indépendante créée en 1996, les éditions du Bélial' se consacrent aux littératures de l'imaginaire, c'est-à-dire la science-fiction, la fantasy et le fantastique, avec une affection notable pour la première. Elle s'est largement imposée depuis dans le paysage de la science-fiction en France : notamment pour réédditer les œuvres de Poul Anderson, Jack Vance ou Greg Egan ; pour avoir fait découvrir au public non-anglophone des auteur·ice·s comme Ada Palmer, Ken Liu ou Rich Larson, pour publier aussi des nombreux·ses auteur·ices en français, notamment dans la collection de novellas Une heure lumière ou dans la revue Bifrost, qui compile chaque mois dossier, articles et nouvelles inédites. En compagnie des éditeurs Olivier Girard et Erwann Perchoc, du scientifique et directeur de la collection Parallaxe Roland Lehoucq , et des autrices Claire North et Audrey Pleynet, nous présenterons l'histoire du Bélial', les temps forts et les différentes collections qui composent la maison d'édition. Avec Claire North, Roland Lehoucq, Audrey Pleynet, Erwann PerchocAnimation : Patrick CockpitTraduction : Keri Connor Table ronde dans le cadre de la 12e édition du festival Les Intergalactiques "Du Pain et des Jeux" le samedi 20 avril 2024.

Ben Goertzel discusses AGI development, transhumanism, and the potential societal impacts of superintelligent AI. He predicts human-level AGI by 2029 and argues that the transition to superintelligence could happen within a few years after. Goertzel explores the challenges of AI regulation, the limitations of current language models, and the need for neuro-symbolic approaches in AGI research. He also addresses concerns about resource allocation and cultural perspectives on transhumanism. TOC: [00:00:00] AGI Timeline Predictions and Development Speed [00:00:45] Limitations of Language Models in AGI Development [00:02:18] Current State and Trends in AI Research and Development [00:09:02] Emergent Reasoning Capabilities and Limitations of LLMs [00:18:15] Neuro-Symbolic Approaches and the Future of AI Systems [00:20:00] Evolutionary Algorithms and LLMs in Creative Tasks [00:21:25] Symbolic vs. Sub-Symbolic Approaches in AI [00:28:05] Language as Internal Thought and External Communication [00:30:20] AGI Development and Goal-Directed Behavior [00:35:51] Consciousness and AI: Expanding States of Experience [00:48:50] AI Regulation: Challenges and Approaches [00:55:35] Challenges in AI Regulation [00:59:20] AI Alignment and Ethical Considerations [01:09:15] AGI Development Timeline Predictions [01:12:40] OpenCog Hyperon and AGI Progress [01:17:48] Transhumanism and Resource Allocation Debate [01:20:12] Cultural Perspectives on Transhumanism [01:23:54] AGI and Post-Scarcity Society [01:31:35] Challenges and Implications of AGI Development New! PDF Show notes: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/fyetzwgoaf70gpovyfc4x/BenGoertzel.pdf?rlkey=pze5dt9vgf01tf2wip32p5hk5&st=svbcofm3&dl=0 Refs: 00:00:15 Ray Kurzweil's AGI timeline prediction, Ray Kurzweil, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity 00:01:45 Ben Goertzel: SingularityNET founder, Ben Goertzel, https://singularitynet.io/ 00:02:35 AGI Conference series, AGI Conference Organizers, https://agi-conf.org/2024/ 00:03:55 Ben Goertzel's contributions to AGI, Wikipedia contributors, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Goertzel 00:11:05 Chain-of-Thought prompting, Subbarao Kambhampati, https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04776 00:11:35 Algorithmic information content, Pieter Adriaans, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/information-entropy/ 00:12:10 Turing completeness in neural networks, Various contributors, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-machine/ 00:16:15 AlphaGeometry: AI for geometry problems, Trieu, Li, et al., https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06747-5 00:18:25 Shane Legg and Ben Goertzel's collaboration, Shane Legg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Legg 00:20:00 Evolutionary algorithms in music generation, Yanxu Chen, https://arxiv.org/html/2409.03715v1 00:22:00 Peirce's theory of semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce-semiotics/ 00:28:10 Chomsky's view on language, Noam Chomsky, https://chomsky.info/1983____/ 00:34:05 Greg Egan's 'Diaspora', Greg Egan, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Diaspora-post-apocalyptic-thriller-perfect-MIRROR/dp/0575082097 00:40:35 'The Consciousness Explosion', Ben Goertzel & Gabriel Axel Montes, https://www.amazon.com/Consciousness-Explosion-Technological-Experiential-Singularity/dp/B0D8C7QYZD 00:41:55 Ray Kurzweil's books on singularity, Ray Kurzweil, https://www.amazon.com/Singularity-Near-Humans-Transcend-Biology/dp/0143037889 00:50:50 California AI regulation bills, California State Senate, https://sd18.senate.ca.gov/news/senate-unanimously-approves-senator-padillas-artificial-intelligence-package 00:56:40 Limitations of Compute Thresholds, Sara Hooker, https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.05694 00:56:55 'Taming Silicon Valley', Gary F. Marcus, https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768076/taming-silicon-valley-by-gary-f-marcus/ 01:09:15 Kurzweil's AGI prediction update, Ray Kurzweil, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/29/ray-kurzweil-google-ai-the-singularity-is-nearer

J'ai eu l'honneur de recevoir François Fleuret, professeur à l'Université de Genève et à l'EPFL, et auteur du succès "The Little Book of Deep Learning".

Hey, look! It’s episode 105 of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, the podcast about making stuff (mostly writing), finding success as we each define it for ourselves, and staying healthy and sane in the process! This is an interview episode, this time featuring the author Juliet Kemp. From their website: Juliet Kemp (they/them) is a queer, non-binary, writer. They live in London by the river, with their partners, kid, and dog. The first book of their fantasy series, The Deep and Shining Dark, was on the Locus 2018 Recommended Reads list; the fourth and final book, The City Revealed, came out in 2023. They have written several novellas, and their short fiction has appeared in venues including Uncanny, Analog, and Cast of Wonders. They were short-listed for the WSFA Small Press Award in 2020 and 2023 and had a story in the anthology Trans-Galactic Bike Ride, which was Lambda Award shortlisted in 2021. When not writing or child-wrangling, Juliet knits, indulges their fountain pen habit, and tries to fit an ever-increasing number of plants into a microscopic back garden. They can be found on Twitter as @julietk, on Mastodon as @juliet@zirk.us, and on Bluesky as @julietk.bsky.social. Listen to hear us muse on fiction writing as a balm for anxiety, the challenges of defining just what sort of fantasy one has written, the validity of “comfort reads,” reaching the right readers, the benefits of working with a small press, procrastination and uncertainty, and why it’s okay to claim your writing as a priority in your life… and just how to go about actually doing that, too… This episode was recorded on August 19, 2024. The conversation with Juliet Kemp was recorded on February 5, 2024. Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode What is Hopepunk? How about Solarpunk? Juliet mentions Greg Egan. I mention “the Killer Bs,” Greg Bear, Greg Benford, and David Brin. An Archive of Our Own is a haven for fan fiction. My Sonitotum episode on how to fix the Amazon bookstore. During the episode, I couldn’t recall the name of a tag-based reading recommendation website. It’s The StoryGraph. Juliet mentions digging the Doctor Who novelizations from the 1980s. I bring up Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan books and the shared world series Wildcards by George R. R. Martin and company. Juliet’s Marek series is published by Elsewhen Press. My oft-recommended choice for a full-screen / no-distractions / plain text editor, Q10, is recommended yet again! Speaking of focus: give Focus At Will a shot. Mechvibes gets another mention. Typewriter sounds for focus and momentum as your write! Big thanks to my Multiversalists patron community, including J. C. Hutchins, Zoë Kohen Ley, Jim Lewinson, Amelia Bowen, Ted Leonhardt, and Charles Anderson! I’m incredibly grateful for the support of my patrons. If Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick brings you joy, become a patron! Every month net earnings from my Multiversalist patron memberships is at least $100, I will donate 10% to 826 National in support of literacy and creative writing advocacy for children. Let’s go! Patron members get the uncut, unedited edition of every episode of Sonitotum. For this episode, that includes seventeen minutes of extra content just for them! This episode has extra content only available for patron members of the Multiversalists community! If you're a patron member at the Bronze level or above, please log in! Click here to learn more about the benefits of membership. This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.

Taylor Driggers joins us to talk about the second volume in C.S. Lewis's SPACE TRILOGY. A richly-described and philosophical science fiction story, PERELANDRA has a lot that's interesting and a lot that's pretty weird when you think about it. A Meal of Thorns is a podcast from the Ancillary Review of Books. Credits:Guest: Taylor Driggers Title: Perelandra by C.S. Lewis Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia Artwork by Rob Patterson Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughReferences:Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature: Fantastic Incarnations and the Deconstruction of Theology by Taylor Driggers The Ursula Le Guin Archives Laurie Marks' Elemental Logic novel series Philophantast conference The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at the University of Glasgow Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman (and our episode on it) The Two Doctors Górski by Isaac Fellman The other two novels in the Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia The Inklings (wiki link) Lewis's A Grief Observed Lewis's final novel Till We Have Faces Ursula Le Guin's review of Lewis's The Dark Tower Lewis's The Great Divorce, Pilgrim's Regress, and The Screwtape Letters Stephen Metcalf, “Language and Self-Consciousness: The Making and Breaking of C.S. Lewis' Personae” in Word and Story in C. S. Lewis: Language and Narrative in Theory and Practice ed. Peter J. Schakel & Charles A. Huttar Lewis's debate with Elizabeth Anscombe J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Ridley Scott's Alien “Sehnsucht”, the concept of inconsolable longing The Transformers franchise Aamer Rahman on defeating Nazis Satan (Milton's version) Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and specifically the religion/philosophy of the Handdara Sofia Samatar's The Practice, The Horizon, and the Chain Casella's essay on (not) defending science fiction against criticisms of complicity Taylor's seminar for his work with the Le Guin Fellowship on historicizing queerness in fantasy and “queer hiddenness in the archive”, available online this fall/winter. Greg Egan's “Oracle”, available on his site (and in the collections Oceanic and The Best of Greg Egan) ContactRSS feed | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | +lots of other platforms (let us know if it's not on your favorite)You can follow A Meal of Thorns on Twitter and Bluesky.Email us at mealofthorns@gmail.com.Support the Show!You can support the podcast (and the Ancillary Review of Books) by joining our Patreon. For $5 and up, you get access to ARB's exclusive monthly newsletter, our Discord community, and more to come.Interested in purchasing a book we mentioned on the show? Check the show notes for Bookshop links; we get a cut if you buy them through our Bookshop!It seems small, but it really does help: like and share our posts! Leave a comment or review wherever you find us. The internet's kind of broken, but that kind of thing really does help people hear about the work we're doing.

[…] Très occupée à rendre fière la France, la Salle 101 convoque quelques oeuvres de qualité pour mieux t’occuper, juge plutôt : Instanciation, texte réjouissant de Greg Egan. Pleurons sous la pluie, texte réjoui de Tanith Lee. Migrants, texte ré de Marina et Sergueï Diatchenko. Plus vite, plus haut, plus fort. « Gnaaa, ngnéééé, uuuugh… » gémit un […]

[…] Pleinement consciente de ses responsabilités comme de ses devoirs, la Salle 101 se convertit à l’adventisme du septième jour mussolinien et chronique des choses capables de divertir ton esprit exigeant, tiens, téma : Isolation, nouveau vieux roman de Greg Egan. Tant que le café est encore chaud, roman de SF inepte et lénifiant de […]

Paul Durham has begun experimenting on his own mind. He uploaded a copy of his neural patterns - everything that makes him who he is - into a computer simulation. The more he experiments, the more the lines between the real person and the virtual person begin to blur. What he discovers there, out at the edge of consciousness and the pattern that defines him, give him an impossible idea. A permutation city, where immortality might be possible.Join the Hugonauts book club on discord!Or you can watch the episode on YouTube if you prefer videoSimilar books we recommend: The Hidden Girl and other Stories - Ken Liu (our interview with Ken Liu: https://hugonauts.simplecast.com/episodes/ken-liu)The Last Question - short story by Asimov (available free here: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html)Diaspora - Greg Egan

Quand on est passionné.e.s de sciences, elles finissent par nous suivre partout, même en vacances ! Pour cette émission de rentrée du Labo des Savoirs, on retrouve une super équipe de bénévoles et leurs aventures scientifiques de l'été. Au programme : Julie Hemmerlin s'est perdue dans les réfractions de la lumière des joyaux pyrénéens Sacha Citerne a découvert la sciences-fiction de Greg Egan, Yeltaz Blandin a observé les cténaires sur la plage Aurore Carcel nous raconte la géologie Slovène Marie Hilary se souviens des étoiles filantes d'Août Jérémy Freixas découvre le futur musée des luttes féministes d'Angers, avec la professeure d'histoire Christine Bard et Célie Dubost s'interroge sur les cloches des vaches suisses Cette émission qui sens encore bon les vacances a été préparée et animée par Sophie Podevin, réalisée par Dounia Saez et enregistrée en public à la fac de sciences de Nantes Université.

In this episode, co-hosts Calum and David continue their reflections on what they have both learned from their interactions with guests on this podcast over the last few months. Where have their ideas changed? And where are they still sticking to their guns?The previous episode started to look at two of what Calum calls the 4 Cs of superintelligence: Cease and Control. In this episode, under the headings of Catastrophe and Consent, the discussion widens to look at what might be the very bad outcomes and also the very good outcomes, from the emergence of AI superintelligence.Topics addressed in this episode include:*) A 'zombie' argument that corporations are superintelligences - and what that suggests about the possibility of human control over a superintelligence*) The existential threat of the entire human species being wiped out*) The vulnerabilities of our shared infrastructure*) An AGI may pursue goals even without it being conscious or having agency*) The risks of accidental and/or coincidental catastrophe*) A single technical fault caused the failure of automated passport checking throughout the UK*) The example of automated control of the Boeing 737 Max causing the deaths of everyone aboard two flights - in Indonesia and in Ethiopia*) The example from 1983 of Stanislav Petrov using his human judgement regarding an automated alert of apparently incoming nuclear missiles*) Reasons why an AGI might decide to eliminate humans*) The serious risk of a growing public panic - and potential mishandling of it by self-interested partisan political leaders*) Why "Consent" is a better name than "Celebration"*) Reasons why an AGI might consent to help humanity flourish, solving all our existential problems*) Two models for humans merging with an AI superintelligence - to seek "Control", and as a consequence of "Consent"*) Enhanced human intelligence could play a role in avoiding a surge of panic*) Reflections on "The Artilect War" by Hugo de Garis: cosmists vs. terrans*) Reasons for supporting "team human" (or "team posthuman") as opposed to an AGI that might replace us*) Reflections on "Diaspora" by Greg Egan: three overlapping branches of future humans*) Is collaboration a self-evident virtue?*) Will an AGI consider humans to be endlessly fascinating? Or regard our culture and history as shallow and uninspiring?*) The inscrutability of AGI motivation*) A reason to consider "Consent" as the most likely outcome*) A fifth 'C' word, as discussed by Max Tegmark*) A reason to keep working on a moonshot solution for "Control"*) Practical steps to reduce the risk of public panicMusic: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration

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: LessWrong Community Weekend 2023 – Applications Open, published by Henry Prowbell on May 1, 2023 on LessWrong. Previous attendees can skip to the application form and note that we're processing applications in 3 batches this year. If you need to know quickly whether you're being offered a place, apply by May 15th to be included in batch 1. September 22-25th is the 10th annual LessWrong Community Weekend (LWCW). This is Europe's largest rationalist social gathering which brings together 150 aspiring rationalists from across Europe and beyond for four days of socialising, fun and intellectual exploration. The majority of the content will be unconference style and participant driven. On Friday afternoon we put up six wall-sized daily planners and by Saturday morning the attendees fill them up with 100+ workshops, talks and activities of their own devising. Previous years' schedules have included. Double Cruxing Hamming Circles Gendlin Focusing Applied Rationality workshops by CFAR instructors and instructors-in-training Circling Authentic Relating games Improv theatre Introduction to stand up comedy Writing rationalist fiction Dance workshops Acapella singing Icebreaker games Lightning talks Celebrating failure groups Giant outdoor chess Penultima Dungeons & Dragons Kung Fu basics Board games Breathwork workshops Ecstatic dancing Radical Honesty workshops Playfighting for adults Polyamory and relationships workshops Sex Q&A roundtable Quantified self workshops Moral philosophy debates AI safety Q&A How to handle fear of AI Doom Value drift in EA The neurobiology of psychedelics The science of longevity Morning runs and yoga Meditation in the rooftop winter garden Night time swimming Ted Chiang and Greg Egan bedtime story readings If things like ecstatic dancing, radical honesty and polyamory workshops sound too intense for you, rest assured everything is optional. (I'm British and very awkward so a lot of this stuff terrifies me.) The event takes place in the natural environs of Lake Wannsee on the outskirts of Berlin. So you can spend some time recharging in between making new friends by hiking in the forests, sunbathing or swimming in the lake. For those who want to extend their stay in Berlin, there will very likely be meetups arranged in the days before and after the event too. LWCW is LGBTQIA+ friendly, people are welcome to bring their children (potentially there will be a professional childminder provided throughout) and this year we're putting extra effort into creating an event where people of all ages, genders, backgrounds and adjacent interests (EA, circling, philosophy, meditation.) feel at home. This event has a special place in my heart and I truly think there's nothing else quite like it. It's where I've made friends who have more in common with me than I knew was possible and it's where I've been introduced to ideas that have altered the course of my life – which is something I never truly got from the online version of LessWrong. Essential Information When: Friday 22nd September - Monday 25th September 2023 Where: jh-wannsee.de (Berlin) Prices: Nobody makes any money from this event and the organiser team are unpaid. All your money goes into paying for the venue, food, equipment and other expenses. Regular ticket: €200 Supporter ticket: €250/300/400 If you want to attend but the ticket or travel cost is the only thing holding you back send us a message briefly explaining your situation. We have a small fund set aside for people who require financial aid. Apply here: http://tiny.cc/LWCW2023signup Contact: If you have any questions post them in the comments section below or email lwcw.europe[at]gmail.com Schedule Friday lunch: Meet in central Berlin at lunchtime for covid tests and vegan food followed by a short bus journey to JH Wannsee (all included in ...

Link to original articleWelcome 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: LessWrong Community Weekend 2023 – Applications Open, published by Henry Prowbell on May 1, 2023 on LessWrong. Previous attendees can skip to the application form and note that we're processing applications in 3 batches this year. If you need to know quickly whether you're being offered a place, apply by May 15th to be included in batch 1. September 22-25th is the 10th annual LessWrong Community Weekend (LWCW). This is Europe's largest rationalist social gathering which brings together 150 aspiring rationalists from across Europe and beyond for four days of socialising, fun and intellectual exploration. The majority of the content will be unconference style and participant driven. On Friday afternoon we put up six wall-sized daily planners and by Saturday morning the attendees fill them up with 100+ workshops, talks and activities of their own devising. Previous years' schedules have included. Double Cruxing Hamming Circles Gendlin Focusing Applied Rationality workshops by CFAR instructors and instructors-in-training Circling Authentic Relating games Improv theatre Introduction to stand up comedy Writing rationalist fiction Dance workshops Acapella singing Icebreaker games Lightning talks Celebrating failure groups Giant outdoor chess Penultima Dungeons & Dragons Kung Fu basics Board games Breathwork workshops Ecstatic dancing Radical Honesty workshops Playfighting for adults Polyamory and relationships workshops Sex Q&A roundtable Quantified self workshops Moral philosophy debates AI safety Q&A How to handle fear of AI Doom Value drift in EA The neurobiology of psychedelics The science of longevity Morning runs and yoga Meditation in the rooftop winter garden Night time swimming Ted Chiang and Greg Egan bedtime story readings If things like ecstatic dancing, radical honesty and polyamory workshops sound too intense for you, rest assured everything is optional. (I'm British and very awkward so a lot of this stuff terrifies me.) The event takes place in the natural environs of Lake Wannsee on the outskirts of Berlin. So you can spend some time recharging in between making new friends by hiking in the forests, sunbathing or swimming in the lake. For those who want to extend their stay in Berlin, there will very likely be meetups arranged in the days before and after the event too. LWCW is LGBTQIA+ friendly, people are welcome to bring their children (potentially there will be a professional childminder provided throughout) and this year we're putting extra effort into creating an event where people of all ages, genders, backgrounds and adjacent interests (EA, circling, philosophy, meditation.) feel at home. This event has a special place in my heart and I truly think there's nothing else quite like it. It's where I've made friends who have more in common with me than I knew was possible and it's where I've been introduced to ideas that have altered the course of my life – which is something I never truly got from the online version of LessWrong. Essential Information When: Friday 22nd September - Monday 25th September 2023 Where: jh-wannsee.de (Berlin) Prices: Nobody makes any money from this event and the organiser team are unpaid. All your money goes into paying for the venue, food, equipment and other expenses. Regular ticket: €200 Supporter ticket: €250/300/400 If you want to attend but the ticket or travel cost is the only thing holding you back send us a message briefly explaining your situation. We have a small fund set aside for people who require financial aid. Apply here: http://tiny.cc/LWCW2023signup Contact: If you have any questions post them in the comments section below or email lwcw.europe[at]gmail.com Schedule Friday lunch: Meet in central Berlin at lunchtime for covid tests and vegan food followed by a short bus journey to JH Wannsee (all included in ...

Neo Nostromo #55 - Nuestras lecturas durante el primer trimestre de 2023 ¡El regreso de Neo Nostromo! Después de nuestro prolongado parón, retomamos el podcast con un repaso a lo que hemos leído durante el primer trimestre de 2023. Los libros de los que hablamos en este episodio son los siguientes: “The Mountain in the Sea”, de Ray Nayler. “Alexandria”, de Paul Kingsnorth. “Tress del mar Esmeralda”, de Brandon Sanderson. “Una vida con notas a pie de página”, de Rob Wilkins. “Chainsaw man”, de Tatsuki Fujimoto. “El mar de la tranquilidad”, de Emily St. John Mandel. “Empire of silence”, de Christopher Ruocchio. “A wizard's guide to defensive baking”, de T. Kingfisher. “The genesis of Misery”, de Neon Yang. “Piranesi”, de Susanna Clarke. “La Brigada de la Luz”, de Kameron Hurley. “Ciudad Permutación”, de Greg Egan. ¡Esperamos que disfrutéis del episodio! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/neo-nostromo/message

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“Opponents replied that when you modeled a hurricane, nobody got wet. When you modeled a fusion power plant, no energy was produced. When you modeled digestion and metabolism, no nutrients were consumed – no real digestion took place. So, when you modeled the human brain, why should you expect real thought to occur?” Welcome back to another episode of Made You Think! In this episode, we're talking all things consciousness and simulated reality with Permutation City by Greg Egan. Classified as a hard science fiction novel, the book tells the story of a man who seeks to create immortality by creating "software" copies of the mind. We cover a wide range of topics including: The complex nature of consciousness Egan's "Dust Theory" What it's like to live in a simulation Ethics surrounding death and dying The possibilities that come with computer intelligence And much more. Please enjoy, and make sure to follow Nat, Neil, and Adil on Twitter and share your thoughts on the episode. Links from the Episode: Mentioned in the Show: The Dust Theory (3:51) Biocentrism (7:37) Black Mirror - San Junipero (30:48) Turing test (35:52) Her (39:08) Building a Second Brain (1:07:05) The Expanse (1:08:08) ChatGPT Epilogue to Permutation City Books Mentioned: Godel Escher Bach (0:42) (Nat's Book Notes) The Three-Body Problem (0:58) (Nat's Book Notes) The Beginning of Infinity (16:42) (Nat's Book Notes) The Egg (19:27) The Fable of the Dragon Tyrant (24:26) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (26:58) Where Is my Flying Car? (27:13)  The Comfort Crisis (30:20)  Homo Deus (44:41) (Nat's Book Notes) Altered Carbon (53:41) The Lessons of History (1:02:26) People Mentioned: Greg Egan (3:54) Arthur Clarke (16:39) Issac Asimov (16:40) Andy Weir (19:28) Liu Cixin (1:04:31) Show Topics: (0:00) If you're a science fiction lover, this week's episode is for you! We're discussing Permutation City, a 'hard science fiction' book from 1994. This book explores many concepts including The Dust Theory and achieving immortality through copying your consciousness. (4:24) Intro to Dust Theory. There are infinitely many universes existing at all space and time. As soon as a universe is perceived by a conscious intelligence, that universe comes to exist, and that universe will always continue to exist as long as there is consciousness to observe it. (8:11) Are we in a simulation? We learn in response to stimuli which is also how LLMs (large language models) learn too. (13:12) Nat, Neil, and Adil define consciousness, discuss the idea of transporting consciousness, and how we differ from LLMs. We have a private and inner mind that generates its own thoughts and feelings. We can't be certain whether computers have this or not. (22:01) There's an 'engine' in our heads that is focused on our survival and continuation. (23:21) Ethics surrounding death. One can argue that life is short, but when you've lived for thousands of years through copying your consciousness, it becomes a question of when it's enough. (28:39) If we could somehow prevent bodily decay and the death of our loved ones, would we ever be ready to die, and is aging something that we can slow down or affect?  (33:43) In the book, from the perspective of the humans, the copies are just programs who look intelligent, but they aren't real. From the perspective of the copies, it's all very real. (41:31) Time dilation and running consciousness slower for the copies. The slowdown doesn't necessarily affect the copy. The time perception is still the same to them, but it may affect how they interact with the real world. (46:08) There's a baseline risk for being alive. You can try to get all of your life risks to zero, but it is best to accept that there will always be some general risk. (51:49) Collaboration in publishing. While most books have a single author, it may add some dimension to get expertise from guest authors with knowledge in different fields. (54:50) What did Greg Egan regret most about Permutation City?  (1:02:11) That concludes this episode! Stay tuned for our next episode on History of the Peloponnesian War. Also on the horizon is The Three-Body Problem. Make sure to pick up a copy if you'd like to read up before the episode. As mentioned, check out this awesome epilogue created by ChatGPT! If you enjoyed this episode, let us know by leaving a review on iTunes and tell a friend. As always, let us know if you have any book recommendations! You can say hi to us on Twitter @TheRealNeilS, @adilmajid, @nateliason and share your thoughts on this episode. You can now support Made You Think using the Value-for-Value feature of Podcasting 2.0. This means you can directly tip the co-hosts in BTC with minimal transaction fees. To get started, simply download a podcast app (like Fountain or Breez) that supports Value-for-Value and send some BTC to your in-app wallet. You can then use that to support shows who have opted-in, including Made You Think! We'll be going with this direct support model moving forward, rather than ads. Thanks for listening. See you next time!

In this episode, Kristen Fortney, cofounder and CEO of BioAge, joins Vijay Pande, founding partner of a16z Bio + Health, and Olivia Webb, editorial lead, to discuss the biology of aging, how she started a company, and some fun things — like how long a hypothetical venture capitalist can expect to live.  Additional reading:Greg Egan, whose writing inspired Kristen, has a list of his books on his website

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In this episode we will discuss cellular automations, Turing machines, and the novel Permutation City by Greg Egan.

WARNING: This podcast is a paid advertisement, for a book. The payment for the advertisement that this podcast is was the book that this podcast is advertising. So, it's not really “paid,” in the sense that the IRS should not worry about this. In this very special episode of Marooned on Mars, we discuss the recently released anthology Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene, edited by Jonathan Strahan and published by MIT Press. We manage to touch on every story in the collection, at least in passing! And in this episode we try our best to minimize spoilers, considering the format of the texts we're reading and their recent publication. Featuring stories by Meg Elison, Tade Thompson, Daryl Gregory, Greg Egan, Sarah Gailey, Justina Robson, Chen Quifan, Malka Older, Saad Z. Hossain, and James Bradley, artwork by Sean Bodley, and an interview with Kim Stanley Robinson, Tomorrow's Parties touches on many themes that that should be familiar to our listeners: political economy and ecology, trying to make history while living with the legacies of the past, the weirdness of being burdened with a body, capitalism and wage labor. Described by Strahan in the introduction as neither hopepunk nor material for doomscrolling, the stories here are imaginative and engaging, and well worth checking out (if you're into that kind of thing). Next up we'll be doing a deep-ish dive into Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072, by M.E. O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi, published by Common Notions. There will be spoilers, so buy it and read it! (You won't be sorry!) Thanks for listening! Email us at maroonedonmarspodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter @podcastonmars Leave us a voicemail on the Anchor.fm app Rate and review us on iTunes or wherever you listen to your podcasts! Music by Spirit of Space --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/marooned-on-mars/message

Polar et littérature de genre avec Michel Dufranne : Octobre, c'est "Le mois de l'Imaginaire". L'occasion de parler science-fiction avec deux titres (une réédition et une nouveauté) qui symbolisent bien l'évolution de la SF en littérature : - Greg Egan, La Cité des Permutants, Le Bélial - Olivier Paquet, Composite, L'Atalante

"Les inconnus connus" d'Éric Russon : Le cowboy fait la bombe. Ce mercredi 5 octobre, c'est les 30 ans de la sortie en Europe de "Automatic for the People", le huitième album du groupe de rock américain R.E.M. On en parle avec Thierry Jourdain, qui a publié en février dernier "R.E.M. - Remember Every Moments" (Éditions du Layeur). Le 5 avril 1980 à Athens en Georgie, un groupe donne son premier concert dans une église désaffectée alors qu'il n'a même pas encore de nom. L'alchimie est déjà là et le succès aussi. Acclamés par tout l'auditoire présent, Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills et Michael Stipe se disent que cela vaut peut-être le coup de continuer ensemble au-delà de cette soirée. Rapidement un nom est trouvé, REM pour Rapid Eye Movement, en français "mouvement oculaire rapide", un phénomène qui se produit pendant la phase de sommeil paradoxal et qui permet à nos rêves d'entrer dans leur phase la plus intense. Rien ne prédestinait R.E.M à devenir l'un des groupes américains les plus influents, prolifiques et intègres de la fin du XXème siècle. De leurs modestes débuts post-punk à leur statut de phénomène musical mondial dans les années 90, les membres de REM ont constamment dépassé les attentes du public et défié les règles du show business. 31 ans après, le groupe se dissout, laissant derrière lui une discographie riche de 15 albums studio, des tubes planétaires comme la pop song parfaite "Losing My Religion" et la ballade crépusculaire "Everybody Hurts". L'ouvrage est parsemé de multiples entretiens que l'auteur a eu avec les 4 membres du groupe. Polar et littérature de genre avec Michel Dufranne : Octobre, c'est "Le mois de l'Imaginaire". L'occasion de parler science-fiction avec deux titres (une réédition et une nouveauté) qui symbolisent bien l'évolution de la SF en littérature : - Greg Egan, La Cité des Permutants, Le Bélial - Olivier Paquet, Composite, L'Atalante

Today's episode has us discussing Greg Egan's "Permutation City", which is a cyberpunk novel set in the near future where humanity can upload their brains into a computer. The book explores themes of mortality and consciousness, following an insurance salesman with a grand vision, and a software programmer out to explore the origins of life. Listen along with us as we give you a spoiler-free review in the first part of the episode and then discuss all of the major plot points in part 2. Our next book will be "The Fifth Season" by N.K. Jemisin, which is book 1 of the Broken Earth trilogy. Email us with questions, comments, requests or recommendations at PoonaSFBookClub@gmail.com Our theme music is The Vendetta by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/JeffSpeed68/58628 Ft: Apoxode

Writing ElsewhereRecently I have written for The Critic about how to find somewhere to live in London, solving the problem of modern architecture, and in praise of stupid politicians. I also produced some epigrams framed as advice for young people.Noah Smith is an economics blogger with his own Substack (highly recommended). We talked about late bloomers, motivation, modelling effects, peer effects, culture, and Anime. I'll leave you to decide what you believe about the disagreement half way through about whether we are morally obliged to work hard and use our abilities. Henry Oliver: Well, thanks for joining me. I appreciate your time and your willingness.Noah Smith: Absolutely.Henry Oliver: What I am interested in, I'm writing about late bloomers, so I'm interested in ideas to do with, your intelligence is flexible, it's not determined at birth, and you have lots of margin to improve yourself. And I saw your tweet, is he called June? Is it Huh, June Huh, the mathematician?Noah Smith: I don't know. I don't know who that is.Henry Oliver: Yeah, he won the Fields Medal, he dropped out of high school.Noah Smith: Oh, right. That's right, that guy.Henry Oliver: He wanted to be a poet and he didn't like maths. And then it was like six years into college, he went to a maths class and he got into it and then he got really obsessed with it and he dropped poetry and he got really... He only ate pizzas, 'cause he was just sitting there doing maths all the time. And then he wins the Fields Medal, so he's like a total late starter, and it defies all the stereotypes that you have to be good at maths when you're young. And he's everything that you're not supposed to be.Noah Smith: Right. Right.Henry Oliver: So what I'm interested in is your views on this whole area. Sorry.Noah Smith: Well, it's hard to say. You can definitely pick out lots of anecdotes like this, of people who come late to a subject and then just go really far in it. And then you're gonna get this infinite debate between people who say, "Well, he always had the talent, he just didn't wanna do it before." And people who say, "Well, you really... You can do anything you set your mind to." And blah, blah, blah. And there's no way you can really prove that. But I think that the better... It's cool to have a guy who dropped out of school to be a poet and then eventually became a Fields Medalist. That's eye-catching and neat, but I think the better examples are the more prosaic examples of people who are just middling students who go on to be math professors. And so for example, I had two classmates.When I was in school, we knew who the very best math people were. I was one of them. And but there were a handful. There were three or four kids each year who were the best people at math and who would go to the top schools and do technical subjects and blah, blah, blah. And one of those did become a math professor, but I think most of them just went to... Eventually became software engineers at Google or whatever, or just blew up their life and became an economics pundit like me. So almost none of them actually went into the field. And then when I look at the couple of people I know from my high school who became math professors, they were both fairly middling in math in high school. They didn't win the competitions. They weren't on the math team.Actually, so when I was in high school, what I liked was not math but physics. That's what I really liked. But I wasn't that interested in math because I felt like it wasn't real, physics felt more real to me. But then when I got to college, I started to really love math proofs, and so I started to like math a lot more in college. The people who ended up becoming math professors, they were on that sort of journey magnified several fold. And so now, they're teaching at some, at a college. And so I guess the point is that...Henry Oliver: What happens to them?Noah Smith: They get interested. Motivation is everything. When we talk about late bloomers, we have to talk about motivation, because kids aren't born motivated. And when kids are young, their parents provide them with motivation. Their parents hug them and tell them they're great, and then insist that in order to keep getting that approval, they've got to ace a bunch of math tests. Or some parents take a more harsh approach where they say, "If you don't ace your math test, I'll beat you with this belt."[laughter]But I think that's kind of going out, that approach, which is definitely what my grandmother had to deal with, with her immigrant parents immigrating from what's now Ukraine. If she didn't get perfect scores on math, they would hit her with a belt.And that is just... That seems very harsh. It is very harsh. It's a world... [laughter] That's the world of the depression and the World Wars, and that old world that was very harsh, and you still get a few immigrant parents who try to take that extremely harsh attack. But I think that in America, we're moving away from that toward something that can be just as emotionally damaging, which is, "You had better get 100 on this math test or I won't love you." And that's the alternative way. But then when people are young, they get all this motivation from their parents, and the people that we call nerds are really just people who are closer to their parents. People who are less close to their parents, we don't call nerds. And no matter how much they are talented at math or good at math...One of my best friends was incredibly smart as a kid. He could ace the SAT as a little kid or whatever and could do a bunch of math stuff. He didn't care at all. He just wanted to play rock music, play rock guitar, and... I don't know, play Dungeons & Dragons, and hook up with girls, and get in fights. And he was very good at all of those things.[laughter]And now he's a physicist in Europe. His parents are both math professors. If there's any natural talent to be had, he obviously had it. And then he just... When he was ready, he just effortlessly went and became a physicist. And so you could argue that there's both talent and motivation here, but the motivation component was key. He had to feel like he no longer felt like... He would go and get in bare-knuckled boxing competitions in Germany or something, which he won. [chuckle] And then... Or just do the craziest combinations of drugs you'd ever not wanna do. And he just did that kind of stuff, and then when he felt like, "Oh, I guess it's time for me to get a job," he just went and did physics. And then he got interested in it, and he got really interested in the physics that he was doing. And it became this... Just like when he was a kid, he used to pour over Dungeons & Dragons manuals, crafting the perfect adventure, he would now just pour over physics, like experiments, and he worked at CERN, and etcetera.And so that's an interesting journey right there. Because motivation changes over life, he was not a nerd as a kid, but he got motivated later in life. And I think that with a lot of nerds, with a lot of the kids that you see who are very close to their parents, and who are motivated by parental involvement, you see burnout, because then those kids are like, "Yeah, I do what my parents want." Blah, blah, blah. And then they get to age 17, 18, and they're like, "Wait a second, why am I not getting laid? Why am I not partying with the other party kids?" And then when they get to college, when they get out of their... Out from under their mother's wing, out to the world where you live in a dorm and you're around all the other young people and no one's really supervising you. I seen... I went to a fancy school and saw this happen again and again and again and again. And so these people just... These people lose motivation and they run off the rails. And they say, "Why did I not get to party?" And often, they regain motivation later in life. The most common pattern is that they party, they figure out how to hook up with people, they find romance, they get married. And then they get their motivation back to be really serious, and then they...So I have a friend who's a mathematician who when he was in college, he was just very down because he had always been so motivated by his parents, and now he was away from them. And now he was like, "Why do I not have a social life?" And we were his friends and always trying to promote him to get a social life. And then he started working out, dating girls, whatever. I went to his wedding, his wedding was a math wedding where a bunch of math people came and made really elaborate esoteric math puns on PowerPoint at his wedding. [laughter] And it was a great wedding.Henry Oliver: That's a good wedding. Yeah.Noah Smith: It was a really good wedding, it was great. And then we all played board games and stuff like that. Now he's a mathematician, but anyway, but the point is that he went through that period where he lost motivation, and some people never get it back. Some people really... And so I think motivation is the key, life motivation. Yeah.Henry Oliver: Right. And then some people talk about... Some people are very fixated on the prefrontal cortex doesn't mature until you're 25, and so you don't get executive making decision abilities. And that's why people in their 20s run around and they don't work hard, and then in your mid-20s, you kind of get your life together. But that seems like a very pat... It's like a Just So story like, “Don't worry when you're 25, it'll just happen and you'll just wake up and your prefrontal cortex will have turned on.” That's a very inadequate explanation. What is motivation? Where can we get it? How can we explain this to people?Noah Smith: I can tell you what I think, and I can pull in various psychology papers to support this thesis. But I can tell you my thesis, that it's all about human approval, it's all about... Motivation is social, there is some intrinsic motivation that you get from nothing, just from curiosity. And we over emphasize this. It's fun to tinker with stuff, and it's fun to play with stuff. There's certainly, like mathematicians out there like Terence Tao, who just from a very early age, were just intrinsically motivated by the fun of tinkering with stuff and have never stopped. That's real, that's a thing that exists. But I think that for most people in most cases, motivation is social. It has to do with the people around you saying attaboy, attagirl, atta non-binary person, [laughter] and patting you on the back and saying... What do you say for atta with a non-binary person? I don't know that. But anyway, so then the point is that people give you congratulations and approval and they say, “You done did good kid.” [chuckle] And that's really what it is, it's... I don't know what the British idioms are here. What do you tell someone you did something good?Henry Oliver: We would just say, “Well done.”Noah Smith: Oh, got that.Henry Oliver: You don't wanna over do it. You say, “Well done.” That's pretty big, right?Noah Smith: Yes, well done. Henry Oliver: If they speak, that's approval. Speaking is approval.[laughter]Noah Smith: Got it, got it. [laughter] That reminds me of a guy, the software engineer in Japan, who was very briefly my roommate for two months. And then we took him to a tattoo piercing bar, which freaked him out so much that he moved out of our apartment. [laughter] He was very... [laughter] Alright, but that's where motivation is, it's social and parental motivation is important, but it doesn't last forever.Henry Oliver: So you're saying it's like status seeking, you want to be seen in a positive way by your peers, you want to have the status of someone who's done whatever these things are, and if we took that away, you would lose interest in the thing itself, the substance.Noah Smith: Well, maybe... So I would be a little more subtle than that. So status, I think, which we pronounce with a short A, sorry. But yeah, status is like...Henry Oliver: No, it's good. It's good.Noah Smith: It's a public thing, it's a public facing thing, like you get the top score in the competition, so your name is up on a board, or you get a medal or something. It's something that everyone... It's something of common knowledge that everyone can see, that everyone else can see, but approval is more general. So that is one sort of approval, yes. But approval can also just be your friend saying, I think you did a good job, and then no one sees. And that's not status, you don't actually get status for having one friend who likes you, and yet that one friend who likes you can often be more important approval. And I think that the most important form of approval for most people is romantic, it's your romantic partner is who gives you the most important approval in your life. That's the person whose approval you seek the most, in fact, achieving romance itself is a form of approval for people, like, “I was good enough that this person liked me and wanted to exclusively dedicate there, whatever to me.” Blah, blah, blah. And so I think that in itself is a powerful form of approval for people who want to... I don't wanna be crude here, but for people who wanna go around and get laid. The getting of laid, it is approval from someone. It's not status necessarily. You can go brag about how much you get laid, but people just don't like you when you do that. Unless they're on a sports team or something. But generally, people don't like that, but you get the approval privately from someone… you know you are attractive. You know you could attract people. And to be honest, I think that's a bigger motivation for a lot of people than the actual enjoyment of sex, is just the knowledge that you're attractive, the... I'm asexual, so I can observe this from an outside vantage point. Yeah, so people get that approval and then romance is that magnifier, because someone approves of you not just to spend a night with you, but to actually dedicate their life to you, or at least some large portion of their life. And so that's an important part of approval. So romance, friends, parents, community. The community approval is status, but it's only one type.Henry Oliver: How far can we take this?Noah Smith: Colleagues….Henry Oliver: But in some ways, this sounds a bit like you're saying people do difficult work for the same reason that the peacock grows a heavy tail, because people will look at that work and go, “I like you. That's a nice tail. Maybe I'll sleep with you.”Noah Smith: [laughter] Well, I don't know about that. I don't think people would...Henry Oliver: Have like...Noah Smith: I don't know about that. But some people are doing that.Henry Oliver: There must be more to it. There must be more to it than, “I want people to like me, so I will study Physics.” Studying Physics is hard. There are other ways to get people to say, “Dude, good job.”Noah Smith: Well, okay, studying Physics isn't always hard.Henry Oliver: No, but you see my point, like you could...Noah Smith: It was a lot easier for me than Computer Science. And then I can't...Henry Oliver: But you could paint the fence and someone would say, “That was really good. Well done.” You don't have to get a... You don't have... People do some impressive things, especially late bloomers. Late bloomers often, it's like, “I haven't done this thing with my life, I'm gonna bloody well go and do it.”Noah Smith: Right. But so it gets pretty subtle because I think that some people have internalized... So here, there is a lot of psych research, actually. My dad's a psychologist, so I learned about a lot of this. But people have internalized motivation that comes from sort of imagining modeling of the people who might approve them. So you think even if your mom is long dead, you might think, “What would... My mom would be so proud that I did this.” Or even if your mom doesn't actually care or even is alive, but just doesn't give a s**t. You could imagine that.And so often, this sort of imagined approval from this ghost of someone hovering over your shoulder is so subtle that you don't even think about it unless you stop to think about it, like, “Why do I think that getting married by 28 is important? Why do I think that?” Someone thinks like, this is a conversation I had with someone the other day, “Why do I think getting married is important?” Their mom never actually called them up and gave them the sort of call, which every female lead gets at the beginning of every rom-com of the mom calling you at your... You wake up in your urban apartment and in your sloppy bed and then your mom calls you and your mom's like, “Why haven't you gotten married and settled down?”Henry Oliver: “Where are my grandchildren?” Yes.Noah Smith: “Where are my grandchildren?” It's like the beginning of every rom-com. I don't know, Bridget Jones or whatever. And so then that scene is just again and again, and so... [laughter] Yeah, so basically, your mom doesn't actually have to call you up. You have an imaginary emulation of your mom in your mind, that may or may not be accurate, that tells you... That calls you up in your mind and tells you need to get married by 28 or whatever, or that you need to succeed in some career. So maybe you choose a career out of interest, or you choose a career out of aptitude or both, but then what drives you to succeed in that career instead of just sitting around and tinkering around. So often...Interestingly, often we think of people who are on the autism spectrum as people who are more intrinsically motivated by curiosity and stuff like that. Those people don't always end up being very high achievers, because I know a guy who's definitely on the autism spectrum who is a professor who just likes to just do his research and never worry about self-promotion or prestige. And so didn't get that prestigious until later in life when people started urging him to become more prestigious and then he started sort of promoting... He's like, “Oh, maybe I should.” And started promoting his stuff, and then got very well known. But for many years, he just wanted to do his own thing in his own lab.And so, intrinsic motivation doesn't always lead to what... To “success.” Because remember, when we're talking about success, there's an automatic selection bias filter there, because we, the public, have decided what is success. So when you're asking what causes success, you're asking what causes people to do things that the public recognizes as success? And so, it's not just public recognition, but the fact that we're filtering by public recognition when we're looking for a thing to explain means that we start out with the kind of thing that could get recognition. You know, we... Like, Fields Medal instead of just, “What if you just did math because you were really into anime and you sat around figuring out all the different ways you could re-watch your favorite show?” Someone did that and he proved...[laughter]He got the core of a very important math result on hyper-permutations from sitting around figuring out how many ways he could re-watch The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, which is a boring cartoon, sorry, [chuckle] that you can re-watch a bunch of different ways? And so, he was figuring out like, “How many ways could I re-watch this?” And so he was posting about it in some forum, and someone relayed it to the sci-fi author, Greg Egan, who also works as a mathematician. And so, Greg Egan came in and partnered with this guy and they published this important paper, but the anime guy just wanted to watch some dumb cartoons. [laughter] That's all he wanted to do and he came up with this result. So...Henry Oliver: What is your best guess for how many people like...Noah Smith: It's just he did it by accident.Henry Oliver: Like how many people are there, like the anime guy, where if we could pair them up with someone or if we could discover them or if we could be like, “Dude, lift your head up and look at the world for 10 minutes, you're actually doing something.” Like, how much talent could we uncover like that? Or are there just not that... Most of them are just watching cartoons, they're not that many of them?Noah Smith: Well, okay, there's not that many of them, but more importantly, if you did discover them, why would they care? How would you get them to care?Henry Oliver: Well, how did Greg Egan do it? I mean, he got this guy to publish a paper.Noah Smith: Well, Greg Egan published the paper.Henry Oliver: Okay.Noah Smith: He's a mathematician who cared. [chuckle] Like, he... He took... This guy would never have published the paper. So, you know, another... The most famous example of this is Grigori Perelman, right? Do you know who that is?Henry Oliver: No.Noah Smith: He's a wacky Russian mathematician who... I hope he's okay now. He's very... Anyway, he came to the United States and was studying, and then while he was here, he figured out how to solve the Poincaré conjecture, which was one of the older, more difficult open problems in mathematics. He figured that out. He wrote it up in a very sloppy way, he just enjoyed it, he wrote it up in a sloppy way and just posted it on the archive. And then he just posted this pre-print and then people are like, “Oh, hey, this guy solved the Poincaré conjecture,” and then some other mathematicians from Princeton went through it and they're like, “Okay, yes, this works.” [chuckle] And so, then... But then they were like, “Okay, publish this paper,” and he was like, “No, I don't wanna publish the paper,” and they were like, “Come on, you're gonna be famous, you're gonna be so important and famous of a mathematician, blah, blah, blah,” and he disliked it so much that he moved away.Moved to St. Petersburg, moved back to Russia to live with his mom, on his mom's pension instead of having a job. He could have gotten a job at any university. And then the Clay Mathematics Institute offered him a million dollar prize for solving this open problem, 'cause they had a million dollar prize for this, he turned the million dollars down, didn't take it. He got a Fields Medal, he refused the Fields Medal.[laughter]Henry Oliver: Oh my God.Noah Smith: He refused... Look up Grigori Perelman, he refused the Fields Medal. This guy's nuts, he just like... He has a beard that looks like a 19th century Russian guy beard, really. And he like... What he likes to do is... His pastimes apparently include breaking into the opera to watch from the janitor seats or whatever, and hopping rooftops...Henry Oliver: Okay.Noah Smith: In St. Petersburg, he lives on his mother's pension. And so this guy solved one of the most important problems in math, obviously has a lot of talent, what is he doing? [laughter] Like, he didn't even care. He was like, “No,” he just... “I quit”, and he's never done any math again, because the social... The stress of getting so much attention kinda broke him. And so, that's... And so the question is...Henry Oliver: But yeah.Noah Smith: Would the anime guy or this guy, who's like anime guy times 20, would [chuckle] they actually want that. When we look at... If you talk to VCs a lot, I think they just generally will tell you that Founder is a personality type, and you're not gonna change people's personality types by discovering hidden talent, they're gonna have the same personality. So you can harvest their ideas, but turning them into the person who wants to be an Elon Musk type...Henry Oliver: Right.Noah Smith: Or a Jeff Bezos type, is just not going to happen. And so I think that we have to understand that there are people whose personality types... So, I think that it's more important to discover the people with the right motivations directing it in the wrong directions, than it is to discover the people with the hidden talent. Somewhere, there is a guy who is extremely good at organizing people and at improving operations and at incorporating new technological ideas, blah, blah, blah, who is using that to sell drugs, and who is basically part of a mafia, drug cartel kind of thing, who is a respected gang leader, and who is using his talents to sell drugs and organize a drug gang, right? And then find that guy and tell that guy, “Why don't you start a tech company instead, it's like a drug gang, but nobody gets shot, hopefully.”[laughter]Unless it's Anduril, in which case somebody gets shot. [laughter] But then like... Yeah, so then nobody... Why don't you start a company instead of a drug gang? And so, there's people who are just... Whose motivations are pointed in the wrong direction. If you want people to apply their motivation to creating value in the corporate world, you should find people who have the motivation to build organizations, to implement new technologies to solve problems, to get money, etcetera. Find those people. Those are the missing entrepreneurs, the people who are leading drug gangs instead of being entrepreneurs.Henry Oliver: How can we change someone's motivation? That seems like the most difficult thing.Noah Smith: Different friends, different romantic partner: that's how you change someone's motivation.Henry Oliver: Right, but anyone who's got a friend who's in a bad friendship group or who knows someone who's made a bad choice of romantic partner or... Like, this is a cliche thing, right? You can't... There's nothing you can do once someone gets into that, like, there's nothing you can do.Noah Smith: Yes, you can, different friends. Go find them, invite them to some hangouts. You don't tell them to stop hanging out with your hoodlum friends or whatever, you don't do that, you don't police who they currently hang out with, you just give them an alternative, you introduce them to some new people and then they can get approval from the new people. And so, I will give you an example.Henry Oliver: Okay.Noah Smith: The example is my brother-in-law, who gave me permission to use this example.[chuckle]Henry Oliver: Okay.Noah Smith: My brother-in-law has never met his father, his mother had him when she was 16, he grew up in a trailer park, very classic. No one in his family had ever been to college. His sister was pregnant at 15, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.Henry Oliver: Yeah. Yeah.Noah Smith: Zero people in his family had ever been to college, but he liked Japanese cartoons, he liked anime, and so he went in the high school anime club where he met my sister. They ended up getting married. She convinced him to go to college. He went to a mediocre college. He's like, “Okay, fine, I'll... My family aren't the college type.” [chuckle] But she convinced him to do that and he was like, “Oh, you know, it was okay, I met some nice people. That was kind of fun.” And then they moved to DC where she's a lawyer. And then she just kept telling him about the work that she did and introducing him to her lawyer friends, you know, and then he met... He started hanging out with all the lawyer friends because his own motivation... Like, his own impulse would just be to like, make friends with a bunch of like, bums he knew from high school who like to play table-top role playing games and watch anime, and yet she's here introducing him to all these lawyers. And he's like, “Well, there's all this cool stuff,” you know? And so he decided to go get a law degree and he got into a top law school. [chuckle] And then he...Henry Oliver: Wow.Noah Smith: Yeah, and so then... Now he just graduated from the top law school and now he's like... He's not a practicing lawyer, he does like, legal consulting work or whatever, but then... But yeah, he graduated from a top law school, and then, no one in his family had ever been to college. They were just hanging out in a trailer park getting pregnant too early. And what happened... No one harshly said, “Don't hang out with the trailer park people, no more of that. Cut off those people.” No one did that. He just met a group of people who inculcated him with this different perspective, you know? He realized he could do different things, he got interested in law, but it wasn't just that... I mean, yes, he got intrinsically motivated, he thought law is cool, right? But also the people around him, his friends who were my sister's friends, were people who did law, and he could get engaged in interesting discussions by talking about legal stuff with them and turned out to be just as naturally smart as any of they were... As any of them were.But then he never would have been discovered by the system had he not met my sister in the Anime Club. So, I guess my real answer to this question of how do we discover the hidden gems of talent is Anime.[chuckle]Henry Oliver: There's a report today in the New York Times of a Raj Chetty study, I think, showing that people of lower socioeconomic status families, the people who move into a higher income bracket, I think tend to have made friends across class divides. So the areas of the country where there are more people making friends across class divides tend to have this... This is exactly what you're describing, that they...Noah Smith: Oh wow, so... Well, I was b**********g based on anecdote, Raj Chetty was doing the systematic study, so that's why Raj Chetty is the greatest.Henry Oliver: He's got a big... Yeah, he's got a big scatter plot that I think suggests what you're saying.Noah Smith: Hold on. So actually, yeah, send me that. I know he's done work on Lost Einstein's modeling effects, neighbourhood effects, things like that. This is a follow-up to that. This is great.Henry Oliver: I believe so.Noah Smith: I love that. Raj Chetty is so good, and anyway...Henry Oliver: Yeah, no, it's very interesting. It's very interesting.Noah Smith: Yeah.Henry Oliver: So you're saying we need to leverage that a lot more, that's the way we match smart people with better motivations, better, better incentives.Noah Smith: Right. Right. Find the people and find something that doesn't require them to immediately jump into Math competition or do a bunch of hard work in the service of something...Henry Oliver: Right.Noah Smith: That they've never been interested in. So that's... You know what, I just invented the Anime theory of motivation. Anime theory of talent discovery. [laughter] How about that?Henry Oliver: So here's my follow-up...Noah Smith: Why Anime? Because it is something that engages your mind a little bit, but it's 99 parts fun, one part thinking about stuff.Henry Oliver: So low barriers to entry.Noah Smith: It's low barrier to entry. That's why a person who is a bum, which is... I use the word bum and it's pejorative, but I think it's absolutely fine to be a bum, if you wanna just sit around and play Dungeons & Dragons, and work in McDonalds your whole life, do that! Fine, I don't need you to work hard for the nation, be a McDonalds Dungeons & Dragons bum, but if you'd also like some... [chuckle] If you'd also like to graduate from a top law school, cool. Okay. So really... So Anime and Dungeons & Dragons, those things are things that... Dungeons & Dragons engages your mind a little more than Anime because you have to calculate a few probabilities and you don't know that's what you're doing, you're like, how likely it is that I'm gonna be able to make this role in Dungeons & Dragons?You're calculating a probability from a uniform distribution, but you don't know that. Also, you just learn a little baby statistics just playing D&D by accident. You learn about fat-tailed versus thin-tailed distributions too, because fat-tailed distributions are the ones that make you die a lot. [chuckle] And so, anyway...Henry Oliver: So we should have Dungeons & Dragons in every school.Noah Smith: We should have Dungeons & Dragons in every school, we should have Anime in every school.Henry Oliver: Okay.Noah Smith: And so... Or the option to do this, and we should have a club where people watch Anime and then write essays about it or something. I don't know, I just made that up, but Dungeons & Dragons should be an extra-curricular activity because it teaches creativity better than anything else. All the Asian countries that are trying to revamp their educational system to teach creativity, should have Dungeons & Dragons classes, and then they're there, that's it, that's all you do. Anyway...Henry Oliver: Okay. I want to follow up on the thing about your brother-in-law.Noah Smith: Yeah. Very cool dude.Henry Oliver: He is a very cool dude, and that's a great story and it's a great outcome, but it's very contingent, because he met your sister, he ended up being a lawyer, if he'd met someone else's sister, he might have done something else.Noah Smith: Correct. He could be an engineer, entrepreneur, who knows.Henry Oliver: Who knows, right? Because smart people can do this whole range of stuff.Noah Smith: Right.Henry Oliver: Is there a problem of like, a lot of people who are smart and who come from a middle class family and they go to university and then they do all become lawyers and consultants and whatevers. And actually, if we're gonna start pulling other people in and re-motivating them, we don't need more lawyers, like, we're fine for consultants, we would prefer you to be engineers and computer scientists and poets and whatever, how does that work?Noah Smith: That's at the policy level. So that's... The government is what does that. And you change the incentives. You can do in a stupid way, like Xi Jinping, where you just basically take people who are doing all the stuff you don't wanna do and then just find them and arrest them. [chuckle] That is stupid and that will fail, because... [chuckle] But instead, we use positive promotion. So, right now we're finding a need to do this with semiconductor engineers...Henry Oliver: Right.Noah Smith: Which China also does, 'cause we're in this race of semiconductors, right? And so China is doing it by basically kicking your ass if you do anything but semiconductors and that's not gonna work. It's gonna work, but not well. But then what we can do is we can promote, we can, of course, subsidize money because people do care about money. Money matters, especially if you have kids. Kids are very expensive. Kids are a huge source of motivation for people to make money.Henry Oliver: Oh, you don't need to tell me.Noah Smith: Oh, you have kids?Henry Oliver: Yeah.Noah Smith: Nice. And so, there is pressure on you to always get some money.Henry Oliver: Yeah. [laughter] Yeah.Noah Smith: Whereas me, there's no pressure on me to get money except to just like, buy my... Like I've bought my rabbits like all the treats that money can buy, and now it's just like, more money just means like line go up for me, right?Henry Oliver: Yeah, yeah, yeah.Noah Smith: But if you have kids, then you need the money. And so, yeah, of course, if you're like super rich, if you're like Elon Musk, then you're back to line go up, because you don't need that money or [chuckle] any of that. You know? You just wanna make the line go up, but then, so... That's government policy. We can promote STEM through stuff in school where we like do... I don't know, MacArthur Genius, blah, blah, blah. I don't even know what that is.Henry Oliver: Yeah, yeah.Noah Smith: And then we can pay money so that Intel will go out and hire a million people and they'll do a job fair and they'll do like, summer internships and they'll be like, “Hey, college kid, how would you like to come do an internship at Intel?” And they're all like, “Oh, sure.” [laughter] And then like, nerd goes and does his internship at Intel and then, “Wow, like that's cool. I'd like to do that after I graduate,” or whatever. Although I guess they mostly hire PhDs. But anyway, you can do that. And so, policy can put their thumb on the scale for whether people become lawyers. In fact, there's been a big sort of crash in the legal field. My brother-in-law went into it, but in fact, the number of people going to law school is like way down.Henry Oliver: Oh, really?Noah Smith: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And the sort of billable hour model collapsed, so basically like, lawyer ran to the end of its... The lawyer boom ran to the end of its life.Henry Oliver: Okay.Noah Smith: There was a big lawyer boom for various reasons. Their underlying drivers were things like the changes in patent law that allow you to patent business process and software drove a need for IP lawyers, which drove up the wages for other lawyers. There was like expanding federal regulation in a number of areas, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. My sister's a human rights lawyer. She works for the Equal Opportunity Employer Commission, so like, she's not in that world. But there was just a general expansion, kind of like business school expansion drove the demand for Economics profs and raised salaries even in traditional Econ. departments. You get the supply... Or, I'm sorry, demand affect bleeds through the whole industry. And you had that in law for about, I don't know, like half a century, and then it just ended one day [chuckle] in the 2010s, it ended.And then like... And to be perfectly honest, I think this is one of many causes of increased unrest in the 2010s is the fact that the legal profession became much more closed off as a sort of like a high-earning kind of out for people who study the humanities. I'm gonna write about that soon. How the drying up of opportunities for humanities majors led to a bunch of pissed off humanities majors who instead were like... They're like, "Now I'm a socialist. I'm gonna rebel. Marxism!" And like... Really it's just because no one would let you be like a fancy lawyer that you expected to be, because we need fewer fancy lawyers. So like, demand plays a huge role here and the government can put its thumb on the scale for demand. And finance can too. You know, like VC...When the second tech boom drew... When finance crashed on the East Coast, a second tech boom, like suddenly everybody was giving their money to Andres and Horowitz and whoever or... I don't know, Soft, I think. Tiger Global. These people were just showering money on entrepreneurs, and so all these smart people who used to go into investment banking, trading, hedge funds, whatever, flowed to the west, and they all started starting companies, tech companies. And so, for a few years in the 2010s, the VCs really had their pick of all this talent because of this massive amount of money they were throwing at it. And I think the recent crash is kind of the end of that rainbow. There's still gonna be some of that going on, but I think that the days of easy money are temporarily over.Henry Oliver: One of the questions on policy that I think is relevant here is like... It's kind of about policy, but it starts with, “What is the status of stuff like STEM generally in the culture?” And one of the problems I think we have... We certainly have this problem in Britain, I think you have it in America, is that to be a scientist is just not cool enough relative to like the number of people we need to study like Physics or Maths at A level. But if you look at Eastern Europe... So this is one reason given why fewer women study STEM subjects. And if you look at Eastern Europe, there's a much higher percentage enrollment of women in STEM subjects. And one of the main explanations for this is that under Communism like you had to be a scientist to help the country and this, “Why would you wanna do something else? We need these scientists. Get on with it.” And so this has left them with a culture that says, “Well, of course, it's good to be a scientist. Why shouldn't you be a scientist?” Whereas in the West, it's more like, “Science, that's hard. You're a nerd. It's boring.” So policy... Policy that's not...Noah Smith: Maybe so...Henry Oliver: As far as China has gone, but that worked better than our thing worked. So how can we split the difference on this?Noah Smith: Well, and I think that it's just role modeling effects are important here. With women in science, I think what you're interestingly seeing is that in Bioscience fields, the women are kind of taking over, and that's really interesting. So if you look at... And I don't wanna attribute it to a modeling effect but you can note that, who are the most popular biologists. The most famous popular biologists of the last like decade, that would be Katalin Karikó who invented mRNA vaccines, and Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier, who were the discoverers of CRISPR. And so those people have really gotten... And you've got a lot of... And there's a lot of other very prestigious like role models for women in Bioscience right here. And it was just... I don't know if there's any deep reason. People are gonna look for deep reasons why electrical engineering is still like the most male-dominated thing in biosciences, like getting increasingly... Not female-dominated, the top tenured professors because that takes many decades to filter through.Henry Oliver: Yeah, sure.Noah Smith: But in terms of who's going to grad school and who's getting, etcetera, that's... Women are just surging and I predict will eventually take over like they did in psychology. And so when you look at these fields, you ask why women in this one field, people come up with all these ridiculous Ev. Psych. explanations, like, “Women like things that are alive.” I'm like, “Come on.” [laughter] They're like a f*****g bacterium or a piece of RNA versus flow of electrons in a device that's... One's not more alive. You can't pet it. It's not a cute little bunny. That's b******t. It's like... And I know because I spend most of my day petting cute little bunnies. But... [laughter] So, no, what's really happening is that you happen to get some women in the bioscience field first and they provided the modeling effects for other women to look at them and be like, “Oh well, that famous scientist is a woman, I could be a women too. And... “ I can be a woman too? I could be a woman, no, I could be scientist too. That's something else. [laughter] Then I can be a scientist too, and put on a lab coat and be just like this person. And I think that you see another thing in the theoretical fields, you see that Theoretical Physics is still extremely male-dominated, but you see that Math...A lot more women are going into Math, and certain segments of Math are getting a whole lot of women, like certain sub-fields of Math are getting a whole lot of women, and Math majors are now about half women. And so Math, I would argue that the skill set required to Math and versus Theoretical Physics is not so incredibly different. It's a little different, Physics has a little more intuition in some areas, and Math a little more rigor, but it's not so different. And the fact that women are going a lot into one field and not into the other field, don't b******t me with some Ev. Psych. explanation of why women like Math instead of Theoretical Physics. Shut up! To the imaginary Ev. Psych. person who's gonna yell at me on Twitter. No, no, it's not. It's modeling effects. It's founder effects and modeling effects, it's like... You get some... And like TV, I'm sure has to do with this, there's probably some effects of media, like media shows women, some famous woman doing bioscience stuff, but not electrical engineering stuff. I don't know. And there's probably that, I don't know, I can't prove that, I don't have any evidence.Henry Oliver: Do we prioritize too young, getting people to sort themselves and decide what they're gonna do, and therefore cut off like range and sampling? And one of the reasons why being a late bloomer is kind of like a slightly weird thing is because we say to people, “Well, you gotta pick something and you gotta go and do it”, and we don't let them just... We don't encourage this thing where actually you might just bum around for a bit and try different stuff and...Noah Smith: Honestly, no. America is really good about that. Other countries do that, and they're trying to do it less. So for example, the most famous example I know of this is a guy named Kim Ung-yong in South Korea, who was... He had the highest IQ ever measured, blah, blah, blah. And they were like, “Well, you've got to...” I don't know, there was this whole national thing where, “He's this great genius, and we've gotta make him...” And the most genius-y thing they thought they can make him do is go work for NASA. They were like “NASA!” And then he was just like, “You know what? I don't wanna do this, I just wanna be a middle manager at like some company and just have a job and have a life, I don't really wanna do hard intellectual stuff. I have like a 210 IQ or whatever, like off the charts.” That's... 210 means nothing. It means our test isn't good enough to measure how well you do these things. And so then he's just like, “I'm just gonna go do my thing.” And so now he's just like some middle manager somewhere and everyone was, got real upset at him, they were like, “You were supposed to be this ass-kicker”, he's a baby boomer, I think, and he's just like, “Yeah, no. I wanna have a life, I just wanna have some kids.”And the other famous example of this is a guy named William Sidis, who was an American guy who had the other highest IQ ever measured, similar kind of situation, who like everyone in the early 20th century just went crazy over this kid, they're like, “Ah! Smartest kid ever.” Blah blah, blah, blah, blah. And he's like, “No, what I wanna be is a Communist.” [chuckle] And so he became like a revolutionary, he just went to protests and stuff like that, and I think ended up getting killed or something. But I actually don't remember what happened to that guy, so don't quote me on that, but William Sidis was this guy's name. He was just the earlier version of Kim Ung-yong. And so now I think if you look at how society treated Kim Ung-yong, pushing him into this thing, versus how it treated Joon Hu, the poet guy, just letting him do something first in Korea, then in America, you see a big evolution, you see this evolution toward letting people discover what they're gonna do. And I think we do let people have time to play around and discover what they wanna do.I think there's more we could do on this front, and I think that... I don't wanna go on a tangent, but I think that the most important thing we could do to provide people with a perspective that we don't currently do is pay Americans, especially, to go on overseas trips when they're young to get some perspective by actually seeing another country, 'cause Americans really get out of their country, especially disadvantaged kids. Imagine you take some disadvantaged kid who's never been more than 20 miles from where he grew up, and suddenly he's doing three months in Vietnam. That'd be pretty cool. That would be a big perspective expander. But, so anyway, I think that would be a big one. But in the old days, how would you... If you just grew up on the farm and never left your hometown, how would you get out, see the world, and meet new kinds of people? Well, the army. It would be the army. What do they say? “Meet fascinating new people from foreign cultures, and shoot them.” [chuckle] “Join the army!” But, I...Henry Oliver: That's kind of what happened to Chris Gardner. Do you know him? The guy... He's a stock broker. He wrote a really good book called The Pursuit of Happyness, that Will Smith turned into a movie.Noah Smith: Oh, I didn't know that.Henry Oliver: He basically had a really bad childhood, lived with a violent step-father, his mother went to jail because of social services problems, and he got out by joining the Navy, and the Navy was the only educational credential he really had. So he's a smart guy, but he didn't have the degree and whatever, and ended up selling medical equipment, and working all the time, and he had... Single father and it was just not working, and he sees a guy with a Ferrari and he's like, “Dude, I need to get me a Ferrari. What do I do?” And got an interview at a stock brokers firm and just... He's like 27, he's African American, he has no degree, he's none of the things that the 1980s stockbrokers firms are looking for.Noah Smith: That were looking for, right.Henry Oliver: Right. But he's been in the Navy and he's obviously like, he's obviously got some smarts and some perspective, and he just claws his way up and now he owns his own firm and he is a multi-millionaire and he's a big success.Noah Smith: Perspective, so I would say that motivation is really important, and motivation comes from friends, friend groups, and then I would say that... And by the way, the person to really talk about this is... But insufferably in a French way is René Girard. He talks about mimetic desire, and this is just the approval thing I'm talking about, but said in a Frenchier way, and... But it is good, it's good, it's good, you should read it. But, yes, like venture capitalists and people in the tech world love to talk about, "Girardian and blah, blah, blah," and yes, okay. [chuckle] So then... Yeah, so motivation is one, but perspective is the other, perspective is exposing your mind to things that you had never thought of before, because when people optimize, they optimize within the choice set that they're aware of, expand that choice set and they will land on some other optimum, they'll find it...Henry Oliver: Do we have to send people abroad though, could we not just give them more anime, more novels, more movies, like different... 'Cause western movies are kind of bad, but if you gave them...Noah Smith: It's worth trying all these things, I think of anime and Dungeons and Dragons, the fantasy geek, the discovery method, I think of that as more about bringing people together, a social... That's a social thing. So you... The DnD group that you play with will be a bunch of nerds, the anime group that you watch with will be a bunch of nerds, and then it'll be nerds reinforcing nerds, so that's more about... Even if other times you're going out and getting into fights and stealing cars or whatever people do now, I guess you can't steal cars anymore, because of new technology, but you can do other... I don't know. I don't know how people steal things anymore, but then... I don't keep up with these things, I'm old. How do hoodlum kids hoodlum now? But the point is that not that you squash that, you give people like this nerd land that they can then... And there's more things than just anime, and Dungeons and Dragons, there's like a million things like that, but basically get nucleus-es of where nerds will pat you on the back for being nerdy, in someway.Henry Oliver: You've said a couple of times that like you don't... If you wanna work at McDonald's, that's fine, you don't have to work hard for the nation, and, but is that true? If someone has a talent or an aptitude, or someone is smart, is there not some sort of moral obligation to use... Like people used to say, “God gave you, God gave you your head, you should use it. It's wrong not to use it.” Is there not something in that? Otherwise, what would happen to us all?Noah Smith: Look, God also gave us prostates that enlarge at age like 55. So God can just shut up, I don't know. [laughter]Henry Oliver: But you know what I'm saying?Noah Smith: No, no.Henry Oliver: If you're born lucky enough to be good at something, you're somewhat obliged to practice what you're good at.Noah Smith: Not at all.Henry Oliver: Why?Noah Smith: Not at all, because the simplest answer is because if your heart isn't in it, you won't be good at it. That's the simple answer, if your heart isn't in it, then all the talent in the world won't make a damn bit of difference because motivation is the key.Henry Oliver: Are you not worried that the easiness of Netflix and all the other stuff that Netflix is, the whole Netflix culture, means that this has become a very different problem now, because... It's... The motivation is too easily...Noah Smith: Leisure is just so fun, that no one wants to work hard anymore.Henry Oliver: It's so easy... It's more than it's so easy to turn it on and so easy to then just not turn it off. It used to be, if you had to go to the movies, you had to get up, you had to go there, you had to get to yourself home, whatever. Now you get home, you turn on Netflix and the next thing you know, it's bed time and nothing's happened. Right?Noah Smith: I don't know, when I was a kid, all I did was pick up a fantasy book, it's like, it's low tech, but I could just escape all day.Henry Oliver: But that's reading. That's different.Noah Smith: I know. Well, is it? My parents were like, and they said, “Don't play video games, don't watch TV, period.” They'd only allow me to watch Star Trek, and they'd allow me to play video games like just like four hours a week, and this is the same... I think four hours a week is the same amount allowed by Xi Jinping, so you're, basically, right now, you're recapitulating ideas of Xi Jinping, who is cracking down... Is limiting the amount that kids can play video games by federal government law. He is cracking down on fandoms, he's saying you can't be part of these pop fandoms, cracking down on pop idols, cracking down on all these fun things that kids do, so that kids won't have fun things to do, so they will use their abilities for the national geopolitical martial power of the great Chinese nation state. The only reason for us to do the same thing is if it would somehow help us compete with Xi Jinping, because Xi Jinping has a giant army, backed by massive amounts of industry and whatever, and if we are just sitting around watching Netflix while they take over the world, then we're not gonna be able to watch Netflix for long.Henry Oliver: Right, and I'm not saying that so much, I'm asking...Noah Smith: And war is a real motivation, war is a thing.Henry Oliver: We have a lot of people... We have a lot of people who are smart, but maybe less aspirational than they should be given how smart they are, or how capable they are. It's not just smartness. And do we have a cultural problem where we're not encouraged to be as aspirational as we could be, and we're two lax with ourselves about, “Well, you did your seven hours today, don't worry about it,” whereas we should say, “Look, let's all use the talents we've got, because this is... It's immoral to just spend your life on the surface...”Noah Smith: So okay, so about the moral obligation, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, I just like, That's a matter of opinion, as David Hume would say, This is like a, this is just a matter of opinion. He'd say it better than that. But that's the point of it.Henry Oliver: Yeah, but he would also work quite hard. [chuckle] He didn't waste his talents.Noah Smith: No, but he wanted to, but he would also go and hang out with Andrew Lord Kames, and get drunk as hell and...Henry Oliver: I'm not... No, yeah, I'm not against fun, I'm just, I'm asking if we reached a cultural point where...Noah Smith: We have Netflix. They had alcohol. Right? When you went to Lord Kames's dinners, you would be called either a one-bottle man, or a two-bottle man, which represented the number of bottles of wine you would consume in one dinner.Henry Oliver: Sure.Noah Smith: That's just nuts. In terms of leisure, that's like nuts. That's so much more leisure than we now have. With the time people work hard, the time people really put their nose to the grindstone and work, work, work, work, work, is during rapid industrialization. If you look at any rapidly developing country, rapidly industrializing nation, then you see this pattern of extreme work, and there's a very good reason for that, because of the opportunities, because instead of living in a shack, your kids could... The opportunities are just wide open, and every, it's a scramble. But scrambles don't last forever. We're not gonna be scrambling forever. And if we had only one country in the world, that country would get rich, and then we'd watch Netflix, and then we'd think, “Wait, should we be doing something more important? No, because our ancestors scrambled and struggled, and starved, and blah, blah, blah, so that we could watch Netflix.” If we had only one country in the world and it just got rich, and then we would be like, “Party time! Thanks, Gramps. Thank you for working hard, now we get to party and watch Netflix all the time.”And so that's the one country thing, and so when we talk about economic growth, we're like, “Well, we're rich and happy, why did our grandparents work so hard, except for us to be rich and happy? They... Why did all this stuff... Why did my grandfather walk to work with cardboard in the soles of his shoes that he couldn't afford to replace for like, I don't know, cents per hour? A few cents an hour, whatever he made in the Depression. Why did he do that? Why did my grandparents make sure to always turn off the lights whenever they left every room to save on their electricity bill, and blah, blah, blah? Why did my great-grandfather beat my grandmother with a belt if she didn't get A's on her test, if she didn't perfect her Math tests? Why did he do that? Why do they do all that horrible stuff, except so that I can watch Netflix? They did that for me. They did that, well, I mean they did that for my mom, but they did that for... But they did this for me, and my parents didn't like...Weren't really poor, but they... But we grew up in a one bathroom house with no garage, and we... And my parents worked hard. And why did they do that if not for me? Why... If we just had one country and we didn't have the possibility of war, then I think that that would be the end of it. It would just be like, “Leisure is the goal. Now have fun.” Dr. Seuss in One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, wrote the most profound line, the fundamental statement of utilitarianism when he said, “If you have not tried these things, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good.” But then, so that's just utilitarianism. That's just like, “Kick back and enjoy it, man. Consumption, leisure, complementarities,” as we say in economics. But...Henry Oliver: It's difficult to think of any prominent utilitarians who have just kicked back and enjoyed it, though, isn't it?Noah Smith: Well, but they did what they liked. Like Jeremy Bentham, or whoever was like, he was writing stuff, because he liked writing. Like I do my hobby. Actually, I'm a perfect kind of example of this, because now I'm doing my hobby as a job. I wrote, I blogged every day, because I liked it. Before I got paid for it, and then when I needed some extra money, I started charging people for it, and now I can just do that as a job and it works pretty well, as a job. And yeah, and so that's great, right? But Jeremy Bentham could have gone to work at some industrial corporation. He didn't. He did what he wanted.Obviously, in a leisure, in a rich leisure society, you're not gonna be able to motivate people to work as hard. And but I would argue that the only problem with that, that there's no moral problem with that at all. There's no increased wealth is not its own justification. That's just line go up, that's just making a line go up. There's no reason to make that line go up. The reason is the consumption that you get, and this is deeply baked into the philosophy of economics, right? Working your whole life and slaving away your whole life and socking away your pennies, and never consuming anything, and leaving your kids with millions and millions of dollars, as I have a great uncle who did that. He made a bunch of money but never spent a dime. Then died and left it to his kids, who then, of course, wasted it all, at being complete bums. He did this. That's not morality, that is obsessive compulsive order. The only reason you do that, is OCD. OCD with anxiety, that is why you save all your money and make all the money and never spend any of it, you do it because you're anxious, you're...Henry Oliver: And are you saying under the framework you're lining out that those people who spent that inheritance, and just like blow through it, you're saying there's nothing wrong with that, that's fine.Noah Smith: I might think those people are losers, as I do, those people are losers, they could have done a lot more stuff, they...Henry Oliver: But that's what I'm saying, I'm saying people should... We should be careful about this culture that says, “It's okay to kick back,” because actually people could do more stuff. What's the difference... What's the real difference between blowing through an inheritance and working at McDonald's...Noah Smith: But who am I to tell people to do stuff? Who am I? I am just some blogger. Who am I to tell my loser...Henry Oliver: Bloggers are the people who tell other people what to do.Noah Smith: I know, but I'm saying like, my loser cousins are just wasting all their inherited money, and I'm just like, “Okay, you do you. I'm not gonna make you stop that,” like do I want you to build some rich dynasty? No, give your money to someone else, let someone else do something with that money.Henry Oliver: Okay. If there are... No, it's good. If there are people, like there's some way through their life, they're in their 20s, their 30s, their 40s, whatever, and they feel like they haven't reached their potential, they haven't done what they want to do, they took the wrong track, like whatever, these things happen.Noah Smith: Right.Henry Oliver: They think they could be a late bloomer, right? What's your best advice for these people?Noah Smith: Meet people, it's all about the people that you meet. Meet people who are the kind of people who do the kind of things you wanna do. Then you will do it too, and if you don't know what you wanna do, which is a lot of people, meet interesting people, meet people who do kind of neat stuff that you don't know what you'd wanna do, meet scientists, meet coders, meet lawyers, like my brother-in-law did, meet people who... Like if you're thinking, you know what, I had fun, I partied, I did a bunch of drugs, I rode a motorcycle around... Yeah, that reminds me of my other friend who he led a dissipate youth, rode with motorcycle gangs, did a bunch of drugs, I don't know, dated European models or something like that, and that was his deal. And then went to Berkeley, naturally smart guy, but then some time in his 20s, he decided, you know what, enough with that, I'm gonna get serious and I'm gonna become a movie director, now he directs documentaries, that's his thing, he's really good at it. Yeah, he just sort of... He gave up drugs, gave up motorcycle whatever-ing.And then now he's just super into it, he's very artistic guy, but, anyway, he does some great movies. He just released a movie about Cuba, that's like a documentary about the opening of Cuba. It is very cool. Which is just called, Cuba, you can look it up.Henry Oliver: Yeah, yeah.Noah Smith: But yeah, anyway, so then he's just another example, he's like, he wanted to party, and then he decided he wanted to do something else, but social connections are the thing. He knew people in the movie world that worked on films, social connections are the key, that friendship connections are the magical elixir through which everything else happens.Henry Oliver: Okay, so people need to sample the world.Noah Smith: Sample the world, get that perspective, get those friend groups.Henry Oliver: Can they do this online, or do they have to go out and actually, and actually find these people in real life?Noah Smith: That's an incredibly important good question that I have no idea about the answer to, and that I would like to know the answer to it, 'Cause that's one I don't have an answer to...Henry Oliver: 'Cause I have known people, like I knew a woman who was a really, or is a really good social media manager, and she came to this career in her own words because she said she had no friends as a child, and she made friends on the internet, and then by doing this, she kind of spiraled up into being a proficient social media curator and whatever else, it's not really my thing, and it's like she developed not only like a life and some friends and whatever, but she developed a career out of this, quite unexpectedly. Like how viable do you... If you wanna be a lawyer or physicist or a poet or a director, is it viable or do you have to be in the room? Do you have to see that person, not only for you to get inspired, but for them to take you seriously.Noah Smith: I don't know.Henry Oliver: Okay. All right.Noah Smith: Yeah, I don't, I honestly don't know the answer to that, and that's an, but that's an important question, the question of how much offline can substitute for online, that's a question for Raj Chetty.Henry Oliver: Great. Noah Smith. Is there anything I should have asked you that I didn't?Noah Smith: What's the best Anime on TV right now?Henry Oliver: [laughter] What is the best Anime?Noah Smith: Spy X Family.Henry Oliver: Okay. It's on Netflix?Noah Smith: It's not on Netflix. You have to look somewhere else to... It'll be on Crunchyroll after it's run finishes, but it's still airing, if you didn't wanna settle down and have a family

[…] Toujours prête à suivre Manuel Valls dans son amour de la France, la Salle 101 célèbre le beau, le bon, le bien : Axiomatique, extraordinaire chose rééditée récemment de Greg Egan, Tè Mawon, SF française retournante de Michael Roch. Hardcore Henry, film américano-russe inepte mais rigolo. Go go go. « Nan mais t’es sérieux, là […]

This episode features "Dream Factory" written by Greg Egan. Published in the April 2022 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/egan_04_22 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/clarkesworld?

En nuestro septuagésimo octavo programa analizamos cuatro clásicos que nos proponen diferentes escenarios en los que la humanidad trasciende su actual condición y pasa a ser "algo más": - "Más Que Humano" de Theodore Sturgeon (1953) - "Mendigos en España" de Nancy Kress (1991) - "Ciudad Permutación" de Greg Egan (1994) - "Carbono Alterado" de Richard Morgan (2002) Nos acompaña la música jazz de Barry Harris y despedimos con Bryan Ferry y su "This is tomorrow". La sintonía, como es habitual, es el tema "Spectre Detector" de los Tiki Tones. Síguenos y contacta con nosotros a través de Facebook en https://www.facebook.com/retronautas, en Twitter en @losretronautas, o escríbenos a nuestro correo electrónico: losretronautas@yahoo.com Puedes también unirte a nuestro grupo de Telegram a través de este enlace: https://t.me/+YokXZZfH4uJmODY0 Y si quieres ayudar a que la Retardis siga volando puedes unirte a la infantería móvil retronaútica en: https://www.patreon.com/losretronautas o aquí mismo en Ivoox. Serás informado de nuestros planes de vuelo, podrás participar en los sorteos de libros y comics y tendrás acceso a los podcast "Micronautas" exclusivos para patrocinadores. También puedes invitarnos puntualmente a un café o varios a través de: https://ko-fi.com/retronautas

Dis weer tyd vir Francois se boekklub. Diekeer praat ons oor Greg Egan se Permutation city. Greg Egan se webwerf Wiki artikel oor Permutation City

Welcome to episode 19 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This time out, Jonathan and Gary return, sans guests or much of a plan. They do manage to touch upon a number of significant issues, such as the work of newly minted World Fantasy Life Achievement winner Howard Waldrop, whether Waldrop could be viewed as a regional author (a Texan in particular), and which other writers might be thought of a representing particular regional voices (R.A. Lafferty, Andy Duncan, Christopher Rowe,  Daryl Gregory?), and how regional voice may show up even in the work of hard SF writers like Gregory Benford. This leads into a more general discussion of influences. Are films based on Philip K. Dick now more influential than Dick's novels themselves? How are innovative writers like Greg Egan (who just turned 60) and Ted Chiang seen as influential? This leads, somehow, into a discussions of how writers like Dick, Lovecraft, Le Guin, Octavia Butler made it into the Library of America, and finally to the importance of international and regional anthologies such as Oghenchovwe Donald Ekpeki's new Year's Best African Speculative Fiction. As always, we also touch upon what we're reading this week.

Rudolph en Evert borduur verder voort in the algemene rigting van logiese foute. Is hierdie die episode waar ons meer twyfel opklaar as verwarring saai? Moet liefs maar nie die potjie verkoop totdat jy die ding self geproe het nie! Deepak Chopra (wiki) en random wysheid skepper Carl Jung (wiki) - synchronicity (wiki) Greg Egan (wiki): Permutation Citi (wiki), Quarantine (wiki) CGP Grey - You are two (youtube) Kurzgesagt - What are you? (youtube) Ars Technica - Tegnologie webwerf

[…] Déjà lessivée par l’absence de couvre-feu et l’irresponsabilité des gouvernants, la Salle 101 s’offre une cure de grand remplacement en chroniquant diverses choses d’intérêt divers : Exoplanètes, livre super chouette de David Fossé. À dos de crocodile et Un château sous la mer, deux nouvelles reloues de Greg Egan. Demain et le jour d’après, [...]

[…] Déjà lessivée par l'absence de couvre-feu et l'irresponsabilité des gouvernants, la Salle 101 s'offre une cure de grand remplacement en chroniquant diverses choses d'intérêt divers : Exoplanètes, livre super chouette de David Fossé. À dos de crocodile et Un château sous la mer, deux nouvelles reloues de Greg Egan. Demain et le jour d'après, […]

This week we talk with Robert C. Jacobson, entrepreneur and space industry enabler, advocate, and investor. Jacobson is the founder of Space Advisors, a strategic and financial consulting firm for space startups and organizations looking to establish a space strategy. He also works at the Arch Mission Foundation, which is dedicated to creating civilizational backup libraries, and Space Angels, the world’s first space-focused angel investment group. His new book is Space Is Open for Business: The Industry That Can Transform Humanity (sample it | buy the hardcover).In this episode, we discuss the bright and dark sides of the emerging space industry — from the inspirational and unifying 1970s visions of Gerard O’Neill to the 2020s’ clash of barons, SpaceX vs. Blue Origin, and the challenges of regulation in a space of blindingly fast innovation and massive inequality. If you believe in the value of this show and want to see it thrive, support Future Fossils on Patreon and/or please rate and review Future Fossils on Apple Podcasts! Patrons gain access to over twenty secret episodes, unreleased music, our monthly book club, and many other wondrous things.Robert Jacobson’s Website | Space Advisors | Twitter | FacebookSupport this show financially:• Venmo: @futurefossils• PayPal.me/michaelgarfield• Patreon: patreon.com//michaelgarfield• BTC: 1At2LQbkQmgDugkchkP6QkDJCvJ5rv3Jm• ETH: 0xfD2BC66586FA4FBA189992E9B0037CD5cb9673EF• NFTs: Rarible | FoundationPeople & Topics in this episode (links go to Future Fossils episodes or my Bookshop storefront):Gerard O’Neill’s The High Frontier, John David Ebert, Mark Nelson, Armin Ellis, Tanya Harrison, Elon Musk, Philip K. Dick’s The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Geoffrey West, Annalee Newitz, Divya Persaud, Bob May, Jeff Bezos, W. Brian Arthur, Space Force, Arch Mission Foundation, Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy (Red, Green, Blue), Robert Zubrin’s The Case For Mars, Robert David Steele, Greg Egan’s DistressFermi’s Paradox, Space Anarchy, Frontierism, Civilizational Backups, The Not Insignificant Ethical Issue of Unchecked Mega-Billionaires, Space Isn’t Hospitable, Space Debris & The Tragedy of The Commons, Scaling Laws & Path Dependencies, Can We Make It To Space Before We Eat Ourselves?, Interdisciplinary Innovation vs. Institutional Incumbents & Inhibitory Structure, Space Is For ArtistsOther related FF episodes: Kate Greene, Barry Vacker, Jessa GambleProgram Info:Music by Future Fossils co-host Evan “Skytree” Snyder.I transcribe this show with help from Podscribe.ai — which I highly recommend to other podcasters. If you’d like to help me edit transcripts for my upcoming Future Fossils book project, please let me know! I’m @michaelgarfield on Twitter & Instagram.If you’re looking for new ways to help regulate stress, get better sleep, recover from exercise, and/or stay alert and focused without stimulants, let me recommend the Apollo Neuro wearable. I have one and appreciate it so much I decided to join their affiliate program. The science is solid.And for my fellow guitarists in the audience, let me recommend you get yourself a Jamstik Studio, the coolest MIDI guitar I’ve ever played. I just grabbed one this year and LOVE it.When you’re ready to switch it up, here are my music and listening recommendations on Spotify. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/futurefossils. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

David and Perry look at Australian literature, ranging from a book about bushrangers written in serial form in 1882 to modern science fiction. Reading overload (00:30) Comfort reads (01:50) Hugo Award nominations (02:47) Nebula Awards short list (07:58) Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (00:05) The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (00:17) Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (00:22) The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk (00:42) Black Sun by Rebecca Rowanhorse (00:22) Network Effect by Martha Wells (01:22) Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark (03:35) Such is Life by Joseph Furphy (04:42) The Watch Tower by Elizabeth Harrower (08:12) Robbery Under Arms by Rolf Boldrewood (08:47) Dispersion by Greg Egan (05:59) The Black Opal by Katharine Susannah Prichard (07:52) Falling Towards England by Clive James (04:42) The Ministry For The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson (01:36) Discussion with W. H. Chong (21:14) The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson (04:03) Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (02:04) The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott (03:53) Underland by Robert McFarlane (03:24) Reading multiple genres (02:41) Poetry (00:29) New translation of Beowulf (01:43) Wind-up (02:15) Illustration: "Fire's On!" by Arthur Streeton.

David and Perry look at Australian literature, ranging from a book about bushrangers written in serial form in 1882 to modern science fiction. Reading overload (00:30) Comfort reads (01:50) Hugo Award nominations (02:47) Nebula Awards short list (07:58) Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (00:05) The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (00:17) Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (00:22) The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk (00:42) Black Sun by Rebecca Rowanhorse (00:22) Network Effect by Martha Wells (01:22) Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark (03:35) Such is Life by Joseph Furphy (04:42) The Watch Tower by Elizabeth Harrower (08:12) Robbery Under Arms by Rolf Boldrewood (08:47) Dispersion by Greg Egan (05:59) The Black Opal by Katharine Susannah Prichard (07:52) Falling Towards England by Clive James (04:42) The Ministry For The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson (01:36) Discussion with W. H. Chong (21:14) The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson (04:03) Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (02:04) The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott (03:53) Underland by Robert McFarlane (03:24) Reading multiple genres (02:41) Poetry (00:29) New translation of Beowulf (01:43) Wind-up (02:15) Click here for more info and links Illustration: "Fire's On!" by Arthur Streeton.

Ned and Meg talk Gestalt. Design and more! Gestalt is a German word that means the shape of a thing, or like the quality of its appearance, or its form, we think. Kurt Kafka, German Psychologist, said “the whole is other than the sum of the parts” which sorta sums up the whole concept. We discuss Gestalt in relation to shifting consciousness, Greg Egan, personal identity, authenticity, Mission Cheese, and then we dive into the Dictionary of Untranslatables, p. 1066 Structure, Pattern, Gestalt.

Hoy nos vamos de viaje, pero por el tiempo. En este capitulo hablamos de manejar el tiempo, pero no de la manera habitual. Empezaremos con El diario de cien años luz de Greg Egan. Veremos si uno se puede engañar a si mismo con un viaje temporal. Finalizaremos el podcast con La ley de los viajes en el tiempo de David Olier. El autor nos plantea otra manera de viajar en el tiempo de lo mas particular. Si queréis contactar con nosotros podéis hacerlo principalmente en nuestro correo "demasiadopocotiempo@gmail.com" o en nuestro Twitter @PodcastDPT Queremos dar las gracias a Jimbur por ayudarnos con las cuñas de los programas y a Teuthidae (@teuthidae) por dejarnos usar la música que ponemos para presentar y despedir los mismos.

The UNSONG Audiobook is now complete. Two-hundred and forty-four thousand, one hundred and forty words. Thirty-two hours of audio. Let me know of any episodes you think really need to be re-recorded. For the rest of this year, the further episodes will be my favorite short stories from the same author, which I have been looking forward to. Here is the hour-long retrospective episode. If you have not read the book and this is where you're starting, be advised of spoilers, and of content warnings about violence and mental illness. It includes an interview with the author, announcements of the future of the podcast, recommendations for further reading or listening, my reflections on the themes of the novel, the ability to change the world, finding patterns where none exist, random acts of violence, and resisting despair. It also includes a very personally vulnerable account of how the novel makes me feel about the historical development of this century so far, the position of my life within that, and the place of you and I and each other in the world. According to my time tracker, I have been writing, reworking, and editing this episode for almost 18 total hours in my text editor alone, to say nothing of the audio editor. On the one hand, I might talk about myself too much, and on the other hand, I consider it misleading if I present a "view from nowhere" as if it were the only one. Everyone has a viewpoint on the subject they are discussing, and this one is mine. I'm interested in yours, so please email your questions or answers or follow-up questions or follow-up answers to: thatsoundshard@gmail.com Question timestamps: 1, the theme of your blog- 01:07. 2, softening opposition to the antagonists - 01:47. 3, planning in a serial format- 05:56. 4, justifying the unjustifiable- 11:09. 5, placebomancy and propaganda- 20:18. 6, worldbuilding premise- 26:44. 7, comedic style- 30:53. 8, psychological distance- 38:02. 9, did anyone ever make it to Wall Drug- 46:50. 10, after the interview- 52:39. Knock, knock. Who's there? Lincoln. Lincoln who? Lincoln the shownotes. Too Like The Lightning, the Terra Ignota series by Dr Ada Palmer: https://adapalmer.com/publication/too-like-the-lightning/ The Atrocity Archive, The Laundry Files series by Charles Stross: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/04/faq-the-laundry-filesseries-ti.html Walkaway by Cory Doctorow: https://craphound.com/category/walkaway/ Blindsight by Peter Watts: https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm Cory Doctorow's article in Locus about Cold Equations and moral hazard: https://locusmag.com/2014/03/cory-doctorow-cold-equations-and-moral-hazard/ Meaningness, an online HTML book by David Chapman: https://meaningness.com/ Blankets, a graphic novel by Craig Thompson: https://smile.amazon.com/Blankets-Craig-Thompson/dp/177046218X Distress by Greg Egan: https://www.gregegan.net/DISTRESS/DISTRESS.html "I Can't Stop Watching Contagion" by Dan Olson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsSzrVhdVuw&vl=en

¡Hola a todos y todas! Hoy os traigo un recopilatorio de relatos de ciencia ficción que es una verdadera joya. Se trata de Axiomático, del australiano Greg Egan. Un total de 18 relatos, a cada cual mejor, con ideas de lo más interesantes y sorprendentes. Sin duda, un imprescindible si os gusta el género.Para cualquier duda o comentario, las formas de contactar conmigo son a través de Twitter (@greenpeeptoes) o en el canal de Telegram del programa (t.me/habitacion101)También espero tus comentarios en https://emilcar.fm/habitacion101 donde podrás encontrar los enlaces de este episodio.

Pre Ciencia Ficción: Louis-Sébastien Mercier : “El año 2440:Un sueño como no ha habido otro” (1770). En 1770, el programa de la Ilustración. Mary Shelley: “Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo”. Julio Verne y H.G Wells Las tres Anti-Utopias Clásicas: Yevgeny Zamyatin, “Nosotros” Aldous Huxley, “Un mundo Feliz” George Orwell, “1984” Olaf Stapeldon: “Hacedor de Estrellas”. La ciencia ficción cósmica en su forma más desarrollada. La Edad de Oro: 1945-1973 Isaac Asimov: el ultimo Ilustrado. La saga de la Fundación (“Fundacion”, “Fundacion e Imperio”,”Segunda Fundación”). Determinismo histórico e ingeniería social en la escala de siglos. Robots—Cuentos de las Tres Leyes (Susan Calvin). Destacado: “El conflicto evitable”, sobre la Guerra Fría y su superación dialéctica por la tecnocracia. Novelas de la Tierra y los espaciales: “Las Bovedas de Acero” y “el Sol Desnudo”. Raza, crisis urbana, imperialismo. Arthur C.Clarke: “Cita con Rama”, “Fuentes del Paraiso”, ”El fin de la Infancia”. Tres historias sobre un tema común: la pequeñez y fragilidad del hombre en el océano del espacio. Robert Heinlein: “Tropas del Espacio“, ”Forastero en Tierra Extraña”, ”La Luna es una amante cruel”. Dont Tread on Me: individualismo, república y frontera americana así en la Tierra como en el Cielo. Frank Herbert: “Dune”: La Era de Acuario: Retro futurismo, ecología, trascendencia y poderes psi. Philip K.Dick: Me gustó más la película: Bladerunner, Minority Report, Desafio Total. Larry Niven Más allá de Heinlein. “Mundo Anillo”, ”Juramento de Fidelidad”. Inmensidad cósmica y ¿autoritarismo libertario?. Clifford D. Simak “Ciudad”, “Estación de Transito”. Melancolía por nosotros mismos, por la inmensidad del tiempo, y el destino de la humanidad. Limits to Growth: 1973-1980s John Brunner: “Todos sobre Zanzibar”. La novela que describe la crisis de confianza de Occidente en los 70s. George Turner: “Las Torres del Olvido”. La misma novela que “Todos sobre Zanzibar”, pero redactada ordenadamente, veinte años después. Thomas Disch: “334”, “Los Genocidas”: La era de las expectativas disminuidas, el fin del progreso, y la vida cuando lo mejor ha pasado. Ursula K.LeGuin: “La mano izquierda en la oscuridad”. Dont Tread on Me, pero feminista y de izquierdas. Robert Silverberg: “The Stochastic Man”: predestinación y libre albedrío, para calvinistas y otros (el argumento se repite en “Historia de tu vida” de Ted Chiang). Norman Spinrad: “Mundo Intermedio”-Quizá la mejor historia de ciencia ficción política: lecciones sobre polarización, libertad de expresión, parlamentarismo... Ciberpunk: del espacio exterior a Internet: 1980s- William Gibson “Neuromante”: la estética ha sido un éxito fenomenal, el contenido… no hay. “Monalisa Acelerada”, destaca “El continuo de Gernsback”, que inicia un género de “el futuro según un determinado momento del pasado”. Neal Stephenson: “Snow Crash” y “La Era del Diamante”: Las consecuencias políticas de un mundo sin referentes culturales comunes. Criptonomicon: el mundo de las start ups y el brave new world de la frontera digital. El Ciclo Barroco: Es increíble que esta desacomplejada celebración de la modernidad pudiese escribirse hace solo 15 años. Bruce Sterling: “Islas en la Red”: Presente perpetuo, quizá la novela de ciencia ficción más visionaria hasta el momento. ¿Qué pasa si hay progreso y no va nadie? Nancy Kreiss: “Mendigos en España”: Una de las mejores aproximaciones al transhumanismo, la democracia y su complicada intersección. George RR. Martin “Los viajes de Tuf”. Esperamos que George sea muy feliz con las 40 monedas de plata que ganó al pasarse a la fantasía épica y la novela erótica. Al menos dejó esta joya. Tres Cimas Orson Scott Card: “Mapas en un Espejo”: no podéis soportar la verdad. Los mejores relatos tratan sobre la incapacidad de la sociedad de tolerar la verdad científica y el Gran Arte. “La memoria de la Tierra”. ¿Puede la humanidad sobrevivir millones de años sin hacerse la guerra nuclear? Solo si vive engañada. “El juego de Ender”, “La voz de los muertos”: la educación del Príncipe Cristiano, versión definitiva, tras 2.500 años de borradores (que empiezan con “La República” de Platón). Dann Simmons: La saga de Hyperion: la saga de ciencia ficción en su forma canónica. Greg Egan. Egan es la forma más alta de la Alta Ciencia Ficción. Nunca la literatura había explorado seriamente la hipótesis de que la subjetividad humana emerge de la materia hasta que llegó Egan. Por supuesto, no podemos soportar la verdad. “Axiomático”. La gran colección de relatos, heterogénea y brillante donde explora los límites de la ciencia ficción dura, pero no en el espacio exterior, sino en ese espacio consciente que es solo el epifenómeno de una red neural (“tu!”). “Diáspora”. ¿Qué hacer con la existencia cuando estas liberado de las restricciones de la materia? La respuesta de Egan es “entretenerse con crucigramas cada vez más difíciles”.

This episode features "You and Whose Army?" written by Greg Egan. Published in the October 2020 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/egan_10_20 Support us on Patreon at http://patreon.com/clarkesworld

This episode features "You and Whose Army?" written by Greg Egan. Published in the October 2020 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/egan_10_20 Support us on Patreon at http://patreon.com/clarkesworld

Personal identity and the self are major concepts of historical and philosophical study. But applying these concepts to others IS history. It's a major purpose of what we do. This episode discusses the famous thought experiment "the Ship of Theseus," and Greg Egan's excellent short story "Learning to Be Me." The lessons learned from these sources can help us think about our current crisis by remembering to listen, understand others, and put yourself in someone else's shoes.  P.S. Against the Grain Part IV will be out in a few weeks if anyone is wondering. Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/reflectinghistory Reflecting History on Twitter: @reflectinghist If you like the podcast and have 30 seconds to spare, consider leaving a review on iTunes/Apple Podcasts...It helps!

Today's extra-long show -- two hours if you're a patron! -- tackles all the issues surrounding the state of our Union in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder, including questions about which charges should be filed against Derek Chauvin, whether Trump can invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807, and much, much more! Oh, and as a bonus, we also have a "lightning round" Yodel Mountain segment (with deep dives for patrons). We begin with an in-depth discussion of an argument made by arguably the country's greatest legal mind, Laurence Tribe, that the murder-3 charge against George Floyd was sure to be dismissed. Find out why Andrew thinks Tribe is wrong, even in light of the Minnesota DA's decision to add a murder-2 charge to Chauvin's charges. After that, Andrew will explain one thing he was wrong about... due to a "quirk" in Minnesota's laws regarding felony murder and the merger doctrine. Then, we discuss Trump's invocation of the Insurrection Act of 1807 to justify potentially sending armed forces into American cities. You'll learn exactly how not justified this is... and whether it matters. After that, it's time to (briefly!) check in with Black Lives Matter and evaluate their lawsuit against Eric Garcetti for an injunction to block the Los Angeles curfew. Will it succeed? (No.) We're not remotely done, though! After all that, it's time to head on up for a lightning round atop Yodel Mountain., were we check in on (1) Rod Rosenstein's Senate testimony, (2) Judge Sullivan's DC Circuit brief in the Flynn case, and (3) a weird story making the rounds regarding a 2016 lawsuit filed (and dropped) against Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. After all that, it’s time for an all-new #T3BE involving character testimony. It's a tough question; can Thomas get it right? Listen and find out! And remember -- if you're a patron, you get a ton of bonus content in this episode, including deep dives on each and every one of these stories! Patreon Bonuses There's a new Patreon amicus thread in addition to all the other patreon goodies. Appearances None! If you’d like to have either of us as a guest on your show, event, or in front of your group (virtually!), please drop us an email at openarguments@gmail.com. Show Notes & Links COVID-19 is still a crisis. On Floyd: (a) you can click here to read the revised Chauvin charging document; (b) this is the here's the Laurence Tribe article; and (c) here's the Greg Egan law review article. We also discuss a number of cases including State v. Wahlberg, 296 N.W. 2d 408 (Minn. 1980), State v. Loebach, 310 N.W. 2d 58 (Minn. 1981), and State v. Barnes, 713 N.W.2d 325 (Minn. 2006). On the Insurrection Act of 1807, 10 U.S.C. §§ 251-255, we cited two specific provisions: § 252 and § 253. And we discussed Greg Gianforte back in Episode 72. During the bonus, we also discussed two executive orders from the George H. W. Bush presidency: EO 12690 and EO 12804, and two corresponding Proclamations: 6023 and 6427. During the bonus, we also break down how Vol. I of the Mueller Report contradicts Rosenstein's testimony. Finally, check out Sullivan's D.C. Circuit brief. -Support us on Patreon at: patreon.com/law -Follow us on Twitter:  @Openargs -Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/openargs/, and don’t forget the OA Facebook Community! -For show-related questions, check out the Opening Arguments Wiki, which now has its own Twitter feed!  @oawiki -Remember to check out our YouTube Channel  for Opening Arguments: The Briefs and other specials! -And finally, remember that you can email us at openarguments@gmail.com!

Ten minutes with... is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they're reading right now and what's getting them through these difficult times. This time out, Gary talks with fellow Locus reviewer Karen Burnham, author of Greg Egan in the Modern Masters of Science Fiction series, and occasional pieces for The Cascadia Subduction Zone. We touch upon having kids at home during the lockdown, finding time to do our own reading in between reading for reviews, and favorite literary comfort foods such as Terry Pratchett and Gail Carriger. Books mentioned include: Greg Egan by Karen Burnham The Revenger Series by Alastair Reynolds Horizon by Barry Lopez Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez The Lives of a Cell and the Medusa and the Snail by Lewis Thomas Small Gods by Terry Pratchett The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett Soulless by Gail Carriger The Order of the Stick by Rich Burlew        

Ahora que nos sobra tiempo para leer, compartimos las novelas de ciencia ficción que más nos hayan impactado o que nos hayan servido para empezar en la narrativa anticipativa. Hablaremos entre otras de: -Flores para Agernon de Daniel Keyes -El Planeta de los simios de Pierre Boulle. -El día de los Trífidos de John Wyndam -Incandesdence de Greg Egan... etc Raul, Ángel, Mario y Manuel abren sus bibliotecas

Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast! thall thall, but we also talk about thall. Then we have thall and thall. This joke sucks. Music from Unlucky Morpheus, Reasoning Reflections, Liturgy, Blood Incantation, Vildhjarta. Zeal & Ardor live, every Gojira pick scrape ever. Then, cool people time with Star Wars colon Jedi colon Fallen Order. Perihelion Summer by Greg Egan, endgame stuff from The Division 2, and the big one - a Death Straning blowout. Enjoy.

In this episode, we discuss “Closer” by Greg Egan.  What can we learn about writing fiction in general from a “Hard” Science Fiction story?  How can philosophical questions influence our fiction? Find Egan’s paper about superpermutations here: “Superpermutations” by Greg Egan.

In which we consider our role models and lost history, plus awards season is hotting up!   WHAT’S NEW ON THE INTERNET:  Hugos: https://locusmag.com/2019/04/2019-hugo-and-campbell-awards-finalists/ BSFA: https://locusmag.com/2019/04/2018-bsfa-winners/ Norma: https://normakhemmingaward.org   JOANNA RUSS BOOK CLUB:  How to Suppress Women’s Writing: Chapter 9, Models (38:30)   CULTURE CONSUMED:  Alisa: Santa Clarita Diet S3; Discovery!; Sabrina S2; Your Favourite Band Cannot Save You, Scotto Moore; Dread Nation, Justina Ireland Tansy: Five Unicorn Flush by TJ Berry, The Women’s War by Jenna Glass, The Royals Alex: Invisible Women, Caroline Criado Perez; a lot of Marvel; Perihelion Summer, Greg Egan; The City, not long after, Pat Murphy   Please send feedback to us at galacticsuburbia@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter at @galacticsuburbs, check out Galactic Suburbia Podcast on Facebook, support us at Patreon - which now includes access to the ever so exclusive GS Slack - and don't forget to leave a review on iTunes if you love us!

Can't wrap your head around three dimensions then try five. To say this book is mind-expanding is an understatement. Me and Vadim do our best to break this ditty down.Greg Egan takes us on a wild ride with consciousness expanding throughout the universe.Greg Egan’s epic tale of consciousness expanding throughout the universe, and some math stuff.https://www.amazon.com/Diaspora-Greg-Egan-ebook/dp/B00E83YOEI/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Matthew feel proud of himself for figuring out how to operate a recording device. While at the same time expresses anxiety about his continued string of fuck ups. Vadim and Matthew discuss the book "Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman". Stay tuned to find out if they solve all the worlds problems.They also introduce a whopper of a scifi book called "Diaspora by Greg Egan".Diasporahttps://www.amazon.com/Diaspora/dp/B00GMOI58M/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=diaspora&qid=1554482776&s=gateway&sr=8-1Utopia for Realistshttps://www.amazon.com/Utopia-Realists-Build-Ideal-World-ebook/dp/B01MXDBTWM/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?hvadid=241596729546&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9032135&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=e&hvrand=1018753358500701019&hvtargid=aud-647006051489%3Akwd-316859034713&keywords=utopia+realists&qid=1554482840&s=gateway&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1

Besprochene Bücher: Jens Lubbadeh: Neanderthal / Robert Corvus: Das Imago Projekt / Kim Stanley Robinson: New York 2140 / Greg Egan: Qual.

This episode contains: Devon’s drinking again. Steven is drinking more. Steven went to a funeral. Devon’s week is looking up so he’s in a good mood. The Genetics Never Forget: Elephants have a “zombie gene” that appears to protect them from cancer. Due to their large size, elephants should have a higher chance of getting cancer. However, they get less than would be expected. It turns out they have a gene that kills cancerous cells. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/science/the-zombie-gene-that-may-protect-elephants-from-cancer.html Robot Overlords: Some people find it harder to turn off a robot that is begging for its life. Researchers had subjects interact with a human-like robot, then told them they could turn off the robot if they wanted. For half the subjects the robot begged the person not to turn them off. Most people at least hesitated, some refused to turn it off. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0201581 https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/a22637023/cute-robot-convinces-peoples-into-preventing-shutdown/ Sci-Fi: More Star Trek. Devon explains why DS9 is the best, but strangest Star Trek. Devon tries to explain that Discovery is a well done show but still not the best Star Trek. Devon is finally watching the second season of The Expanse and enjoying it more now. We then talk about Dr. Who a lot, knowing very little about it. Devon has finished Clockwork Rocket by Greg Egan. He enjoyed it but it was really strange. He’ll likely read the next two in the trilogy. He’s now reading Ball Lighting, the new book by Cixin Liu, the author of The Three Body Problem. It was actually published in China in 2005 but just released in the US. Despite being a huge Stephen King fan, Steven has not seen Castle Rock. Devon has even gotten some of the references on the show. Steven is rereading the Harry Potter book and Devon is considering reading them too. Steven then tells us about a Star Wars card game that sounds pretty cool. We then finally talk about the Samantha Bee report on Asgardia and all the things they make fun of. We end the show with Devon buying something stupid.

This episode contains: California is on fire again. We briefly discuss how screwed the people of California, us included, may be. Devon then tells us about his 6-month-old son’s first swim lesson. Robot Overloads: AI can predict your personality. This leads to a discussion of the Myers-Briggs test, which Devon is super skeptical of.  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180728083603.htm            All You Need is Science: A study used statistical analysis of Beatles songs to determine who wrote In My Life. They broke down songs where the author was known (Lennon or McCartney) into different elements then applied the analysis to determine In My Life was probably written by Lennon. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/asa-lom072718.php Sci-Fi: There’s a pic from the new Terminator movie. We’re not excited. They’ve announced a new Star Trek series about Picard, which will star Patrick Stewart. We are excited. We then talk about the new The Expanse tabletop game and how The Expanse was first thought of as an RPG. Devon then tells about a very odd book he is reading: Clockwork Rocket by Greg Egan.

Luke reviews Diaspora by Greg Egan. Get this audiobook for free, or any of 100,000 other titles, as part of a free trial by visiting this link: http://www.audibletrial.com/sfbrp. Buy this book at , or discuss this book at Goodreads.com Luke blogs at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog Follow Luke on twitter: http://twitter.com/lukeburrage Luke writes his own novels, like “Minding […]

In this podcast, Alex Wissner-Gross from Gemedy sat with Vishal Kumar from AnalyticsWeek to discuss the convoluted world of intelligence in artificial intelligence. He sheds deep insights on what machines perceive as intelligence and how to evaluate the current unwrapping of AI capabilities. This podcast is a must-attend for anyone who wishes to understand what AI is all about. Timeline: 0:28 Alex's journey. 7:20 Alex's role in Gemedy. 9:19 Physics of AI. 12:05 General use cases for distribution of AI capabilities. 15:00 State of AI. 20:03 Defining intelligence. 23:42 Maximum freedom of action. 28:12 Intelligence and maximizing future freedom of action. 30:10 Maximum freedom of action and maximizing impact. 31:45 Thoughts on deep learning. 36:55 Data sets or data models? 39:27 AI in the context of business? 44:08 AI and the protection of human interests. 48:40 AI that ensures the employability of humans. 51:11 Advice for businesses to get started with AI. 59:01 Alex's ingredients to success. 1:01:16 Alex's favorite reads. 1:04:26 Key takeaways. Alex's Recommended Listen: Accelerando (Singularity) Mass Market by Charles Stross (Author) https://amzn.to/2GDkBUl Diaspora: A Novel by Greg Egan https://amzn.to/2s1GF5L Rainbows End: A Novel with One Foot in the Future Mass Market by Vernor Vinge https://amzn.to/2J3oarQ Podcast Link: https://futureofdata.org/alexwg-on-unwrapping-intelligence-in-artificialintelligence-futureofdata/ Alex's BIO: Dr. Alexander D. Wissner-Gross is an award-winning scientist, engineer, entrepreneur, investor, and author. He serves as President and Chief Scientist of Gemedy and holds academic appointments at Harvard and MIT. He has received 125 major distinctions, authored 18 publications, been granted 24 issued, pending, and provisional patents, founded, managed, and advised 4 technology companies that were acquired for a combined value of over $600 million. In 1998 and 1999, he won the USA Computer Olympiad and the Intel Science Talent Search. In 2003, he became the last person in MIT history to receive a triple major, with bachelor's in Physics, Electrical Science and Engineering, and Mathematics, while graduating first in his class from the MIT School of Engineering. In 2007, he completed his Ph.D. in Physics at Harvard, where his research on neuromorphic computing, machine learning, and programmable matter was awarded the Hertz Doctoral Thesis Prize. A thought leader in artificial intelligence, he is a contributing author of the New York Times Science Bestseller, This Idea Must Die, and the Amazon #1 New Release, What to Think About Machines That Think. A popular TED speaker, his talks have been viewed more than 2 million times and translated into 27 languages. His work has been featured in more than 200 press outlets worldwide, including The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, CNN, USA Today, and Wired. About #Podcast: #FutureOfData podcast is a conversation starter to bring leaders, influencers, and lead practitioners to discuss their journey to create the data-driven future. Wanna Join? If you or any you know wants to join in, Register your interest @ http://play.analyticsweek.com/guest/ Want to sponsor? Email us @ info@analyticsweek.com Keywords: #FutureOfData #DataAnalytics #Leadership #Podcast #BigData #Strategy

This week's episode is brought to you by Visionary Magnets, the refrigerator poetry magnets that turn your boring old kitchen appliances into the substrate for woke invocations, tantric pillow talk, and other occult goofery. Support their Kickstarter and "enlighten your fridge" today! Or tomorrow. Subscribe to Future Fossils on iTunes Subscribe to Future Fossils on Stitcher Join the Future Fossils Facebook Group This week is part one of a special double-length episode with Jon Lebkowsky, founder of EFF-Austin – one of the unsung heroes of Internet culture, whose tale stretches through the earliest web communities and reads like a list of landmark moments in the history of digital rights and culture. http://weblogsky.com/ https://twitter.com/jonl https://www.facebook.com/polycot/ https://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/495/Bruce-Sterling-and-Jon-Lebkowsky-page01.html We talk about the early days of hacking in the Wild West of the 1990s, how the World Wide Web has changed since then, and the promises and perils of the Internet in the 21st Century. It’s a winding tale of pseudonymous keyboard-slingers and federal raids, roleplaying game empires and sci-fi visionaries, centered on the unsuspecting hippie cowboy outpost of Austin, Texas, Once Upon A Time. Enjoy this special conversation on the history of the Internet we know today, and a snapshot of the hopes and fears of life online in the dawn of our digital era… TOPICS: - The threat of Internet-empowered fascism and “participation mystique” (or maybe worse, a corporate plutocracy) eroding rational civil discourse and the dignity of the individual - The problems with “Net Neutrality” and how it makes more sense to focus on “The Freedom to Connect” - Connectivity vs. Interdependence (OR) Networks vs. Buddhism - Does the Noosphere already exist, and we’re just excavating it? - The History of Electronic Frontier Foundation-Austin and how it was connected to the secret service’s raid of legendary role-playing game designer Steve Jackson (GURPS) - The hilarious, troubled Dawn Age of e-commerce before secure web browsing - Jon’s work with a Gurdjieff group and his encounters with esoterica as an editor of the Consciousness subdomain for the last issue of the Whole Earth Review - Cybergrace, TechGnosis, and Millennial concerns about the mind/body split in the first Internet and our need to humanize technology with whole-body interfaces and MOVEMENT - Embodied Virtual Reality & Other Full-Sensory Immersive Media - Cory Doctorow’s new novel Walkaway as a banner book for the maker movement and a new form of cyber-social-liberation. - The movement of political agency back into city-states in a digital era - “On the Internet, no one knows you’re a dog.” - Shaping the future of wireless infrastructure in the early 00s of Austin - Getting our values right before we imprint the wrong ones into superhuman AI - Putting together diverse conversation groups to solve “wicked problems” - New forms of participatory open-source politics suited for an internet age SOME OF THE PEOPLE & STUFF WE MENTIONED: Whole Earth Provisions, Whole Earth Review, The WELL, Whole Foods, William Gibson, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Hakim Bey, William Irwin Thompson, Alien Covenant, Terminator, John Perry Barlow, Mitch Kapor, Mike Godwin, Bruce Sterling, Clay Shirkey, WIRED Magazine, Fringeware, RoboFest, Heather Barfield, Neal Stephenson, Terence McKenna, Church of the Subgenius, Mondo 2000, Erik Davis, GI Gurdjieff, The National Science Fiction Convention, Rudy Rucker, Greg Bear, Jon Shirley, Jennifer Cobb, Robert Scoville, Greg Egan, Ernest Cline, Octopus Project, The Tingler, Honey I Shrunk The Kids (Ride), Charles Stross, Glass House, Rapture of the Nerds, Cory Doctorow, Alan Moore, Project Hieroglyph, Arizona State University, Jake Dunagan, Plutopia Productions, The Digital Convergence Initiative, Chris Boyd, South By Southwest, Boing Boing, Make Magazine, Dave Demaris, Maggie Duval, Bon Davis, DJ Spooky, Forest Mars, OS Con, RU Sirius, Shin Gojira, Open-Source Party, JON LEBKOWSKY QUOTES: “The Noosphere can certainly have pathologies…” “The Internet was originally a peer-to-peer system, and so you had a network of networks, and they were all cooperating and carrying each other’s traffic, and so forth. And that was a fairly powerful idea, but the Internet is not that anymore. The Internet has, because of the way it’s evolved, because it’s become so powerful and so important and so critical, there are systems that are more dominant – backbone systems – and those are operated by large companies that understand how to operate big networks. That’s really a different system than the system that was originally built.” “SO FAR we’ve managed to keep the Internet fairly open…the absolute idea of net neutrality might not be completely practical.” “Science fiction is a literature of ideas, but a lot of those ideas do not manifest in exactly the way that they did in the book.” “I don’t have a real high level of confidence that anybody understands exactly what the fuck is going on.” “You couldn’t get a consumer account to get access to the Internet at that time. And in fact I think the first companies to do that were here in Austin.” “At the time, we were the only game in town for internet stuff…” “One thing I learned was, if you’re at the very cutting edge, it’s hard to make money.” “There are a lot of people who aren’t in touch with themselves internally. Because it’s hard. It’s hard to do that.” “I know that that’s sort of the goal in VR development: to give you a fully immersive experience where you’re really in a completely other reality, like in the Holodeck. But, you know. I’m still dealing with THIS reality. I don’t want another one.” “In an online community, people are always itching for ways to get into real human proximity with one another. They’re always looking for ways to meet.” “That’s my idea of what works now: is to have events that are experiences, you know, versus people just like, going to movies, or watching television, or going to a concert and watching a band play.” “I keep thinking that we won’t be able to solve our problems with bureaucracy or the kind of governance structures that we’ve been living with, but I look around me and see people who are doing just fine, and doing great work, and living their lives…and I’m sort of feeling hopeful and a little bit confident that those people will step up and do what they need to do to make things work, even if our so-called elected officials aren’t doing it.” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lindsay asks a question and oh boy does she get an answer. An in depth refutation of Elon Musk's claim that we are most likely all living in a Simulation. A description of Musk’s claim: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/elon-musk-simulated-universe-hypothesis An overview of the Computational Theory of Mind: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-mind/ Nick Bostrom’s original paper: http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html RIck and Morty, the greatest show on TV right now: http://amzn.to/2nM0BXB Robbie’s two favorite Greg Egan books (exploring these ideas in fiction) Diaspora: http://amzn.to/2nM0hIi Permutation city: http://amzn.to/2nLYXoI CGP Grey on the Transporter problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHBAdShgYI An overview of the chinese room argument: http://www.iep.utm.edu/chineser/

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Hoy tenemos el placer de charlar con Héctor Socas sobre el podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido http://vivaldi.ll.iac.es/proyecto/coffeebreak/   La primera conversación Cómo surgió el podcast, por iniciativa de Héctor y cómo el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias lo apoya. Las aventuras de Héctor con el equipo de podcasting. Los componentes de Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido y cómo se organizan. Banda sonora - la música que hace Héctor: http://vivaldi.ll.iac.es/proyecto/coffeebreak/?page_id=549 Audacity: http://www.audacityteam.org/download/ Google Docs: https://www.google.com/intl/es/docs/about/ De vez en cuando hacen un streaming en video del episodio y forman parte de programación de radio. Los oyentes. Craig pregunta cual es el mejor modo de nutrir el interés sobre la astrofísica en los niños. Vivimos en una época muy bonita porque con internet podemos tener acceso a una cantidad enorme de recursos. Pero tambien hay muchísimo ruido; saber distinguir el ruido de la señal puede ser complicado. Buscando el nicho. La reseña del "futuro joven científico". Científicos de nombre que han aparecido por el programa y con los que Héctor ha contactado. Héctor nos cuenta su intercambio de emails con Dr Gerard ‘t Hooft, Premio Nobel de Física: http://vivaldi.ll.iac.es/proyecto/coffeebreak/?p=318 ¿Star Trek o Star Wars? El libro que más ha influenciado a Héctor. Carl Sagan - Cosmos: https://www.amazon.es/COSMOS-EVOLUCION-COSMICA-Fuera-colecci%C3%B3n/dp/8408053043/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486729101&sr=8-1&keywords=carl+sagan+cosmos Unlocking The Secrets of The Cosmos(full documentary)HD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-ymk-uqvdg Isaac Asimov: https://www.amazon.es/Isaac-Asimov/e/B003RY2ISS/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1486729161&sr=8-1 Frank Herbert: https://www.amazon.es/Frank-Herbert/e/B000APO5OM/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1486729345&sr=8-1 Greg Egan: https://www.amazon.es/Greg-Egan/e/B000AQ3HJA/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1486729435&sr=8-1 Miguel Santander: https://www.amazon.es/costilla-Dios-otros-relatos-final-ebook/dp/B00W1X92W6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486729507&sr=8-1&keywords=miguel+santander Héctor recomienda: Radio Skylab: http://radioskylab.es/ Los Tres Chanchitos: https://3chanchitos.es/ Las Noches de Ortega: http://cadenaser.com/programa/oh_my_lol/la_noche_de_ortega/ Y Héctor recomienda este documental: Carl Sagan - Un pálido punto azul (Subtitulado): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3bJ1OWZpDg Wikipedia reference in English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot Podéis encontrar el podcast Coffee Break: Señales y Ruido en www.señalyruido.com   Post-interview Discussion Involving colleagues from both inside and outside the Institute promotes a healthy exchange of ideas and opinions, and a forum in which to discuss topics that they are all passionate about. Being frank and honest and expressing opinions that may be controversial on your podcast creates interest and attention around your topic and your podcast. People love to talk about subjects they are interested in and will often happily appear as a guest on your podcast if you tap into their passion. Somebody recently declined to guest on Pilar’s 21st Century Work Life  podcast because she saw Pilar as a competitor. Microphone headsets are a good solution for people who are not used to speaking into microphones. The microphone always stays at a fixed distance from the mouth and they allow co-hosts to ‘forget the tech’ and concentrate on the content of the podcast. If you are interested in this solution, here is an example of a decent headset: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sennheiser-PC-USB-Internet-Telephony/dp/B005HWEZGG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1462957667&sr=8-1&keywords=+Sennheiser+Pc8 Mindset is important, especially in respect of an approach to education. Storytelling is a very powerful way to engage listeners. It’s amazing how diverse and interesting the world of podcasting is and the wide range of topics covered. Space opera: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=space%20opera Nestor’s podcast: Luces Extrañas: http://nestorgm.com/ The Great Indoors: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5485566/ Blog: https://enclavedepodcast.com/ Twitter: @clavepod Learn about virtual teams, management coaching and much more with Pilar on: http://virtualnotdistant.com/ http://www.futureworkcentre.com/what-we-do/education/evidencetalks/ Pilar is @PilarOrti on Twitter Improve your English with Craig: http://www.inglespodcast.com/     http://www.mansioningles.com/ Craig is @mansiontwit on Twitter

What is quantum physics? Quantum mechanics 101: Demystifying tough physics in 4 easy lessons (TEDed) (http://blog.ed.ted.com/2014/12/07/quantum-mechanics-101-demystifying-tough-physics-in-4-easy-lessons/) Quantum physics for 7 year olds: Dominic Walliman TED talk (YouTube) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARWBdfWpDyc) 6 things everyone should know about quantum physics (Forbes) (http://www.forbes.com/sites/chadorzel/2015/07/08/six-things-everyone-should-know-about-quantum-physics/#7c7722f941f8) What is quantum mechanics good for? (Scientific American) (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/everyday-quantum-physics/) What has quantum mechanics ever done for us? (Forbes) (http://www.forbes.com/sites/chadorzel/2015/08/13/what-has-quantum-mechanics-ever-done-for-us/#1b24ecee6759) Quantum mechanics (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics) The map of physics: Dominic Walliman animation (YouTube) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZihywtixUYo) Classical mechanics vs quantum mechanics (Cambridge University Press) (http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/29526/excerpt/9780521829526_excerpt.pdf) Newton's laws of motion, the foundation of classical mechanics, break down at the very small scales addressed by quantum mechanics & at the very high speeds addressed by relativistic mechanics (livescience) (http://www.livescience.com/46558-laws-of-motion.html) Kepler's laws of planetary motion...apparently he didn't even have a telescope to figure them out! (HyperPhysics) (http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/kepler.html) "Kepler's laws apply not only to gravitational but also to all other inverse-square-law forces &, if due allowance is made for relativistic & quantum effects, to the electromagnetic forces within the atom" (Encyclopaedia Britannica) (https://www.britannica.com/science/Keplers-laws-of-planetary-motion) What is black body radiation? "Radiation modes in a hot cavity provide a test for quantum theory" (HyperPhysics) (http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/mod6.html) Quantum theory timeline (Particle Physics Timeline) (http://www.particleadventure.org/other/history/quantumt.html) Max Planck solves the black body radiation problem (Fermilab) (http://home.fnal.gov/~pompos/light/light_page28.html) What is a photon? (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon) The wave-particle duality of light & elementary particles...mental (HyperPhysics) (http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/mod1.html) Explainer: What is wave-particle duality? (The Conversation) (http://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-wave-particle-duality-7414) Richard Feynman on understanding quantum mechanics (YouTube) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SczWCK08e9k) Neils Bohr: "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it" (Wikiquote) (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr#Quotes) Richard Feynman: "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics" (Wikiquote) (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Richard_Feynman) The observer effect: When you look at something, you change it (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics)) Schrödinger's cat explained (YouTube) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOYyCHGWJq4) What superposition? (Phys.org) (http://www.physics.org/article-questions.asp?id=124) Quantum decoherence (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence) What is decoherence? (Drexel University) (https://www.physics.drexel.edu/~tim/open/main/node2.html) What is the multiverse? (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse) The theory of parallel universes is not just maths - it is science that can be tested (The Conversation) (http://theconversation.com/the-theory-of-parallel-universes-is-not-just-maths-it-is-science-that-can-be-tested-46497) What the hell is spin? (io9) (http://io9.gizmodo.com/5713560/what-the-hell-is-spin) Do quantum effects make our choices our own? (Storify) (https://storify.com/gmusser/the-quantum-physics-of-free-will) 'Quarantine' by Greg Egan was the book Johnny was thinking about, not 'Diaspora' (which is also excellent) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(Greg_Egan_novel)) The basics of MRI: Electron spin is involved (Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science) (https://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/mri/inside.htm) Debating that if we didn't understand quantum mechanics we wouldn't have computers (Physics Stack Exchange) (http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/112615/why-is-it-said-that-without-quantum-mechanics-we-would-not-have-modern-computers) How does a computer chip work? (SciTech, CERN) (https://scitech.web.cern.ch/scitech/TopTech/03/Chip/chip2.shtml) Making silicon chips (Intel) (http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/history/museum-making-silicon.html) What is a transistor? (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor) What is quantum tunnelling? (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling) The tunnelling transistor (IEEE Spectrum) (http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/the-tunneling-transistor) The 5 nm node in transistors was once thought to be the end of Moore's law - "transistors smaller than 7 nm will experience quantum tunnelling through their logic gates" (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_nanometer) What is Moore's law? (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law) IBM beat Intel & currently have the world's smallest transistor at 7 nm (The Verge) (http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/9/8919091/ibm-7nm-transistor-processor) The best thing about IBM's super chip? It's not from Intel (Wired) (https://www.wired.com/2015/07/ibm-seven-nanometer-chip/) The world's smallest transistor is 1nm long, physics be damned (The Verge) (http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/10/6/13187820/one-nanometer-transistor-berkeley-lab-moores-law) What is Heisenberg's uncertainty principle? (The Guardian) (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/10/what-is-heisenbergs-uncertainty-principle) The uncertainty principle (HyperPhysics) (http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/uncer.html) Walter White from Breaking Bad named himself after Heisenberg (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_White_(Breaking_Bad)) The one-electron universe theory (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe) Quantum quackery (The Committee for Skeptical Enquiry) (http://www.csicop.org/si/show/quantum_quackery) The 5 most misguided uses of the word 'quantum' in ads (Cracked) (http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-most-misguided-uses-word-quantum-in-ads/) The Quantum Leap TV show (IMDb) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096684/) "The laser would never have been developed without a profound understanding of an area of fundamental physics - quantum theory" (Institute of Physics) (http://www.iop.org/cs/page_43644.html) The Pauli exclusion principle (HyperPhysics) (http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/pauli.html) Entanglement made simple (Quanta Magazine) (https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160428-entanglement-made-simple/) What is quantum cryptography? (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cryptography) Google moves closer to a universal quantum computer (Scientific American) (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/google-moves-closer-to-a-universal-quantum-computer/) Where are you from? Send us a postcard! Strange Attractor, c/ PO Box 9, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, Australia Corrections Re: the orbit of Mercury puzzle...Johnny was thinking about proof of relativity not quantum stuff (io9) (http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-200-year-old-mystery-of-mercurys-orbit-solved-1458642219) There is debate about whether the Pauli exclusion principle implies an effect on all particles in the universe at once (Sean Carroll, Cal Tech physicist) (http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2012/02/23/everything-is-connected/) Check out our new Fireside home Find aaaaall the great episodes & show notes & handy instructions should you feel like leaving us a cheeky iTunes review...go on...we know you want to! 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We've been getting a lot of comments asking for us to talk about books, so we spend the majority of this episode talking about our favorite sci-fi/fantasy novels. But before that, we talk about some news as well. News involving Cilice, Arkona, Slice The Cake, Dark Tranquillity and Schammasch. We also talk about a couple of cool releases we discovered, namely Fractal Cypher and Crator. Then we do the underrated release highlight of the week, which is Defiant Imagination by Quo Vadis. And then there's books. Many books. We cover authors like the big R.R.s (Tolkien and Martin), Robert Jordan (ugh), Brandon Sanderson, Roger Zelazny, Hannu Rajaniemi, Thomas Sturgeon, Gene Woolfe, V.E. Schwab, Greg Egan, Jim Butcher, Joe Abercrombie and more. We had a great time with this! Also, if you want to check these books out and also support the podcast at the same time, you can get an audiobook for free at audibletrial.com/heavy. Seriously. Even if you get one book, it helps support the podcast for several weeks. We really appreciate your patronage and here's to another year of HPIHC.

Greg Egan's short story Steve Fever was first published in the November/December 2007 edition of Technology Review. I read it the Year's Best Science Fiction 2008, edited by Gardner Dozois. Steve Fever tells the story of nanobots that have taken over the world with a single task in mind: to raise their creator back from the dead. Have you read this story? Join in the discussion on Twitter @ShortSFReview. I'm posting these episodes along with my own stories at www.joncronshaw.com - you can also friend me on Facebook by searching for Jon Cronshaw. #cyberpunk #scifi #nanotech #robots

Hello and welcome to Enter VR! Join Frooxius and I as we explore complex subjects that are too difficult for me to understand! Frooxius is a genius level over 9,000, he's the creator of Sightline, Neos the Universe, World of Comenius and many more! In this conversation we talked a lot about light fields, the origins of Frooxius and trying to create life out of in-organic matter. Here is a snippet of all the things we talked about: 45: Using nostalgia to sell VR to you. 1:20: Intro 2:30 Working with eVRday VR on lightfields in VR. 3:20 What's it like to work with Dee. 4:30 Frooxius thoughts on education in general. Read "Free to learn" by Peter Grey. 10:00 Creating simulations of Quantum effects in VR. 11:30 Using Lightfields in education. 14:30 How to capture Lightfields inside of game engines. 16:50 Why and how Lightfields are relevant to the average person. 21:30 The finish line in the race to cross the uncanny valley has already been crossed. 22:30 Creating Lightfield images that take up 48 gigs in your hard drive. 25:30 The end goal of Frooxius's light field work. 28:30 Are Lightfields the future of 3D rendering? 32:30 The origins of Frooxius. 36:30 Creating games with Powerpoint when he was 12 years old. 37:30 Growing up without internet. 40:00 The video games that influenced Frooxius the most. 42:30 Portal 2 has a great procedural soundtrack. 46:30 The most difficult fields of science to understand for Frooxius. 49:30 The science fair that changed Frooxius's life. 52:30 Discovering VR. Creating the first SightLine. 53:30 Trying the DK1 for the first time. 56:00 Beating Half Life 2 in VR. 57:30 Was Frooxius aware of how big VR could become? 58:30 Frooxius's secret to making fuck tons of VR games and demos. 59:50 Neos is using evolutionary algorythms to create a living metaverse. 1:04:30 Will we ever see AI that makes better pop music than us? 1:08:30 The most compelling theory of consciousness according to Frooxius. 1:14:30 Do you need self awareness to have consciousness? 1:16:30 Can simulations become self aware? 1:18:30 Using VR as a tool to explore consciousness. 1:20:30 Can inorganic matter develop consciousness? 1:24:30 Discussing the Michael Abrash's talk at Oculus Connect 2. 1:28:30 Using neural input to discover the edge of the simulation we live in. 1:30:30 We don't have the technology to simulate an exact replica of our current universe. 1:35:30 Frooxius prediction for when we will simulate reality. 1:38:30 Starting the church of the simulation. 1:39:30 Read the "Universe from nothing" by Lawrence Kraus. 1:41:30 Being in a multiverse is mathematically simpler. 1:45:30 Frooxius's plan for the future. 1:47:30 Procedural tree making is bad ass. 1:52:30 Neos the origin will show off the world building features of Neos the Universe. 1:53:30 Neos the origin demo on its way. 1:54:30 How to stay in touch and get more info on Frooxius's 1:56:30 Read Diaspora from Greg Egan. Orphanogenesis 2:00:00 Closing thoughts. What is Dark matter? How parallel universes can be possible. Thanks to Frooxius for being a true scholar and gentleman of virtual reality and thank you for listening! Keep in touch with the links below: http://blog.frooxius.com/ http://www.frooxius.com/ https://twitter.com/frooxius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel)

Luke reviews Permutation City by Greg Egan. Get this audiobook for free, or any of 100,000 other titles, as part of a free trial by visiting this link: http://www.audibletrial.com/sfbrp. Buy this book at Amazon, or discuss this book at Goodreads.com Luke blogs at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog Follow Luke on twitter: http://twitter.com/lukeburrage Luke writes his own novels, like […]

¡Los VerdHugos han vuelto!En este episodio los VerdHugos le dedicaremos la primera parte del programa a hablar del segundo libro seleccionado para el sello VerdHugos: Axiomático, de Greg Egan. Os invitamos a leer esta fantástica antología del mejor autor de ciencia ficción hard del género.En la segunda parte del episodio (1:18h) Elías, recién llegado del Celsius 232, nos hará una crónica de su experiencia.Para acabar, en la tercera parte (1:56h) haremos nuestras habituales recomendaciones literarias.Música: Bitches of your souls (The Saurs) - http://thesaurs.bandcamp.com/Logotipo: Javier HansardGuest Star: Alexander Páez© www.verdhugos.com (agosto 2014)ElíasSpiderlight, de Adrian TchaikovskySix of the dusk, de Brandon SandersonLetiThe Torch, de Alex Ross y Patrick BerkenkotterMundos en el Abismo, de Juan Miguel Aguilera y Javier RedalPedroMañana Todavía, de Varios AutoresLos Magos, de Lev GrossmanJosep MaríaThe devil you know, de Mike CareyDelirios de Grandeza, de Santiago García AlbásMiquelZodiac, de Neal StephensonLuminous, de Greg Egan

While our intrepid podcasters brave the wilds of London, a new episode for you (hopefully)! With no specific topic in mind, and having sent a greeting to Sleepless in Wagga, Gary and Jonathan answer questions: from Guy in Toronto about single malt whisky; from Fred in New Jersey on: Clifford Simak. Cordwainer Smith. Fritz Leiber. Are they forgotten?; Agents of SHIELD; and making a pitch for a Greg Egan retrospective short story collection; and from Michael about how crowd-funding has changed the anthology market. All in all, thanks to the friends of the podcast, it made for an interesting and entertaining episode. We hope you enjoy it. We'll be back soon!

With birthday celebrations now receding into the past (no baked goods were harmed in the recording of this podcast), Gary  and I turn our attention once more to matters at hand. The Locus Awards nominees have been announced, so we discuss the usefulness of awards, how 2010 looks in retrospect, and how 2011 looks from here (with specific mention of China Mieville's Embassytown, Greg Egan's Clockwork Rocket, Michael Swanwick's Dancing with Bears, Nnedi Okorafor's Akata Witch, and Jo Walton's Among Others), and I set Gary a reviewing challenge. We hope you enjoy it, as always!

17 - Greg Egan, lu par Manuel Siggen