Machines may help bring about a Post-Scarcity Utopia, assuming they don't take over instead, and we dream of a future that is a Post-Scarcity Utopia, but its dark reflection is the Post-Discontent society, one where through deception or brainwashing people do not even known how they are being deprived or oppressed. The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur01211 Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/g807KawBOq0 Vis...
Jan 17, 2021•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Machines may help bring about a Post-Scarcity Utopia, assuming they don't take over instead, and we dream of a future that is a Post-Scarcity Utopia, but its dark reflection is the Post-Discontent society, one where through deception or brainwashing people do not even known how they are being deprived or oppressed. The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur01211 Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/g807KawBOq0 Vis...
Jan 17, 2021•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Cryonic freezing offers a pathway to reap future medical technologies today by preserving someone for future restoration, but what would the impact of this technology be on civilization? Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Watch the Video version: https://youtu.be/V_u9Za00uBY Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur SFIA Merchandise available: https://www.signil.com/sfia/ Facebook Group: htt...
Jan 14, 2021•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Cryonic freezing offers a pathway to reap future medical technologies today by preserving someone for future restoration, but what would the impact of this technology be on civilization? Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Watch the Video version: https://youtu.be/V_u9Za00uBY Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur SFIA Merchandise available: https://www.signil.com/sfia/ Facebook Group: htt...
Jan 14, 2021•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our Universe is billions of years older than our planet, and we often contemplate alien civilizations that might have arisen early than us in our galaxy, but just how early could life have arisen? Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook is free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "isaac" to 500-500. Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/OytOJdGsrA0 Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Fac...
Jan 07, 2021•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our Universe is billions of years older than our planet, and we often contemplate alien civilizations that might have arisen early than us in our galaxy, but just how early could life have arisen? Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook is free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "isaac" to 500-500. Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/OytOJdGsrA0 Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Fac...
Jan 07, 2021•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast As we move into space we prepare not just to settle the Moon and Mars, but stretch our reach out to other stars and settle the galaxy, becoming an interstellar species. The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur12201 See the SFIA Episode Listing: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E7UTCFWSRk1vuyjmYhSvtmvINVSU9tWy5LabQeHW9t8/edit?usp=sharing Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https...
Dec 31, 2020•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast As we move into space we prepare not just to settle the Moon and Mars, but stretch our reach out to other stars and settle the galaxy, becoming an interstellar species. The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur12201 See the SFIA Episode Listing: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E7UTCFWSRk1vuyjmYhSvtmvINVSU9tWy5LabQeHW9t8/edit?usp=sharing Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https...
Dec 31, 2020•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our monthly livestream Q&A session for December 2020 Visit our Website: www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Social Media: Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Dec 27, 2020•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Kardashev-2 Civilizations are hypothetical empires which encompass entire stars, with access to billions of times the energy Earth has, often seen as builders of megastructures like Dyson Spheres. But could civilizations with only the technology we have become Kardashev-2? Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/oMiHioZrlOw Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur SF...
Dec 24, 2020•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kardashev-2 Civilizations are hypothetical empires which encompass entire stars, with access to billions of times the energy Earth has, often seen as builders of megastructures like Dyson Spheres. But could civilizations with only the technology we have become Kardashev-2? Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/oMiHioZrlOw Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur SF...
Dec 24, 2020•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Navigating the vast ocean of the galaxy to reach distant stars will be no easy matter, but future spaceships may find many new difficulties finding their way throughout space, and also throughout time. Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Watch the video version: Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur SFIA Merchandise available: https://www.signil.com/sfia/ Facebook Group: https://www.faceb...
Dec 17, 2020•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Navigating the vast ocean of the galaxy to reach distant stars will be no easy matter, but future spaceships may find many new difficulties finding their way throughout space, and also throughout time. Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Watch the video version: Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur SFIA Merchandise available: https://www.signil.com/sfia/ Facebook Group: https://www.faceb...
Dec 17, 2020•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our galaxy likely contains trillions of worlds, and perhaps none we could live on without great effort to make them like Earth. To colonize these worlds, to make them settlements for our descendants in the future, we must first terraform them. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/C2jh7dCwGRs National Space Society Roadmap: https://space.nss.org/nss-roadmap-to-space-settlement-3rd-edition-2018-contents/ Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Visit our Website: http:...
Dec 13, 2020•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our galaxy likely contains trillions of worlds, and perhaps none we could live on without great effort to make them like Earth. To colonize these worlds, to make them settlements for our descendants in the future, we must first terraform them. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/C2jh7dCwGRs National Space Society Roadmap: https://space.nss.org/nss-roadmap-to-space-settlement-3rd-edition-2018-contents/ Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Visit our Website: http:...
Dec 13, 2020•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast As we venture out into space to colonize new planets, moons, and asteroids, how will these new settlements grow from simple outposts in to developed worlds with cities and civilizations all their own? Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/XL1ehbG9EL8 Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur SFIA Merchandise available: https://www.signil.com/sfia/ Faceb...
Dec 10, 2020•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast As we venture out into space to colonize new planets, moons, and asteroids, how will these new settlements grow from simple outposts in to developed worlds with cities and civilizations all their own? Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/XL1ehbG9EL8 Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur SFIA Merchandise available: https://www.signil.com/sfia/ Faceb...
Dec 10, 2020•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast The last century has been one of awesome and often terrifying technological progress, and the next century offers as many wonders and terrors for us to navigate into our future. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/WcUJSlmFnnk Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook is free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "isaac" to 500-500. Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Facebook Group: https:...
Dec 03, 2020•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast The last century has been one of awesome and often terrifying technological progress, and the next century offers as many wonders and terrors for us to navigate into our future. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/WcUJSlmFnnk Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook is free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "isaac" to 500-500. Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Facebook Group: https:...
Dec 03, 2020•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our monthly livestream Q&A session for November 2020 Visit our Website: www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Social Media: Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Nov 29, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast In order to colonize space, we will need colonists willing to travel to desolate planets, moons, and asteroids to settle those worlds. What would life be like as a pioneer to the alien frontier? Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/CHXIQCQslmk Get the best discount of the year on Raycons! Now through the end of November, go to https://buyraycon.com/isaacarthur to get 20% off your order! Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur ...
Nov 26, 2020•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast In order to colonize space, we will need colonists willing to travel to desolate planets, moons, and asteroids to settle those worlds. What would life be like as a pioneer to the alien frontier? Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/CHXIQCQslmk Get the best discount of the year on Raycons! Now through the end of November, go to https://buyraycon.com/isaacarthur to get 20% off your order! Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur ...
Nov 26, 2020•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Asteroids represent a threat to Earth, but in the future they may be a boon, serving as sources of vast wealth and resources, and as orbital settlements and keystones of interplanetary trade. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/xTAxjJ6KY7M Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur National Space Society Roadmap: https://space.nss.org/nss-roadmap-to-space-settlement-3rd-edition-2018-contents/ Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Pat...
Nov 19, 2020•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Asteroids represent a threat to Earth, but in the future they may be a boon, serving as sources of vast wealth and resources, and as orbital settlements and keystones of interplanetary trade. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/xTAxjJ6KY7M Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur National Space Society Roadmap: https://space.nss.org/nss-roadmap-to-space-settlement-3rd-edition-2018-contents/ Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Pat...
Nov 19, 2020•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast One solution to the Fermi Paradox, the big question of where all the aliens are, is that extraterrestrials might hide from us to avoid altering our society, a concept we see in Star Trek called the Prime Directive. Is such a policy ethical, and if so, should we follow it? Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/TwNdj76CK-E Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur SFI...
Nov 15, 2020•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast One solution to the Fermi Paradox, the big question of where all the aliens are, is that extraterrestrials might hide from us to avoid altering our society, a concept we see in Star Trek called the Prime Directive. Is such a policy ethical, and if so, should we follow it? Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/TwNdj76CK-E Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur SFI...
Nov 15, 2020•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Establishing Interstellar Trade and Commerce in the future will require an entirely new approach to moving cargo, as years if not centuries might pass for shipments to arrive by even the fastest spaceships, but may be aided by the use of vast interstellar Cycler Castles traveling on century long trade routes. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/2MGVFCr4sIM Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us ...
Nov 12, 2020•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Establishing Interstellar Trade and Commerce in the future will require an entirely new approach to moving cargo, as years if not centuries might pass for shipments to arrive by even the fastest spaceships, but may be aided by the use of vast interstellar Cycler Castles traveling on century long trade routes. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/2MGVFCr4sIM Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us ...
Nov 12, 2020•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Kardashev Scale measures how powerful a high-tech civilization is, with K-1 indicating a advanced society able to call on all the power of their planet, which we often envision as a Post-Scarcity Utopia. Is this the future of Humanity? And if so, how can we achieve it? Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/OcIXiRftjs4 Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook is free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "isaac" to 500-500. Visit our Website: http://www.i...
Nov 05, 2020•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Kardashev Scale measures how powerful a high-tech civilization is, with K-1 indicating a advanced society able to call on all the power of their planet, which we often envision as a Post-Scarcity Utopia. Is this the future of Humanity? And if so, how can we achieve it? Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/OcIXiRftjs4 Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook is free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "isaac" to 500-500. Visit our Website: http://www.i...
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