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Grand Futures: What are we hoping for? What do we do if we get it? | Anders Sandberg | EAGxOxford 22

Dec 31, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 4min
2
How Do We Think Well About the Future?
04:04 • 4min
3
How to Make Good Predictions About the Very Far Future
07:52 • 2min
4
Automate the Building of Machines
10:15 • 3min
5
The Law of Physics - Can We Run the World on Solar Panels?
13:22 • 2min
6
Are We Going to Get More Bananas?
15:52 • 4min
7
The Energy Crisis Is a Good Idea
19:55 • 2min
8
Computation Is Like Air When You Sing
22:17 • 3min
9
How to Explain the Universe Without Intelligent Life?
24:53 • 2min
10
Computations Get More Effective if You Do It at Lower Temperature
27:14 • 2min
11
Is There a Galactic Colonization Project?
29:35 • 2min
12
The Long Reflection
32:02 • 3min
13
Is the World Getting Better Coordinated?
34:40 • 2min
14
The Importance of Hope in the Future
37:08 • 3min
15
Are We Going to Stay in the Next Millennium?
40:22 • 2min
16
Do We Deserve to Get the Universe?
42:12 • 2min
17
Is the Internet Archive a Small Organization With a Tiny Budget?
44:30 • 2min
18
Is There a Meta-Population in Ecology?
46:15 • 2min
19
Is There a Finite Limit to Decision Theory?
48:22 • 2min
20
A Few Questions About the Fermi Paradox
50:09 • 2min
21
Are We Really Alone?
52:23 • 3min
22
Is There a Value in Diversity?
55:03 • 2min
23
The Greatest Science Fiction Novel Ever
56:50 • 2min