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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(09:14) – University of Austin (UATX)
(42:09) – Sam Harris
(1:00:36) – Elon Musk
(1:08:55) – Money
(1:18:50) – Hyperinflation
(1:24:15) – Bitcoin
(1:40:57) – Ethereum and smart contracts
(1:49:43) – Worst disasters in human history
(2:11:41) – How history will remember the current pandemic
(2:25:16) – Hope for the future
(2:33:46) – Love
(2:40:24) – Meaning of life
#274 – Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry
#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence
#272 – Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal
#271 – Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures
#270 – David Wolpe: Judaism
#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness
#268 – Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology
#267 – Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse
#266 – Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar
#265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling
#264 – Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity
#263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma
#262 – Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens
#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind
#260 – Georges St-Pierre, John Danaher & Gordon Ryan: The Greatest of All Time
#259 – Thomas Tull: From Batman Dark Knight Trilogy to AI and the Rolling Stones
#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning
#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize
#256 – Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony
#255 – Mark Normand: Comedy!
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