Sentient Developments Podcast

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Date Title & Description Contributors
2012-05-14

  Sentient Developments Episode 2012.05.14

Sentient DevelopmentsPodcast for the week of May 14, 2012. Topics discussed in this week's episode:Are humans becoming more or less psychopathic?Why Star Trek's vision of the future is out out dateAsteroid Mining could be against the lawWill Sweden abo...
  George Dvorsky author
2012-05-12

  Sentient Developments Episode 2012.04.09

Sentient DevelopmentsPodcast for the week of April 9, 2012. Topics discussed in this week's episode:My recap of the Moral Brain conferenceA review of the attention my Dyson Sphere article is gettingA summary of my recent appearance on the al-Jazeera sh...
  George Dvorsky author
2012-05-12

  Sentient Developments Episode 2012.04.16

Sentient DevelopmentsPodcast for the week of April 16, 2012. Topics discussed in this week's episode:NASA's upcoming workshop on rethinking their Mars strategyBeaming solar power to Earth with satellitesVeteran astronomer Geoff Marcy joins SETILinda Ma...
  George Dvorsky author
2012-05-12

  Sentient Developments Episode 2012.05.07

Sentient DevelopmentsPodcast for the week of May 7, 2012. Topics discussed in this week's episode:Scientific explanations forGame of Thrones' messed-up seasonsCould a single pill save your marriage?Nature goes ahead and publishes study explaining how t...
  George Dvorsky author
2012-04-02

  Sentient Developments Episode 2012.04.02

Sentient DevelopmentsPodcast for the week of April 2, 2012.Topics for this week's episode: J. Hughes on democratic transhumanism, personhood theory, and AI; making brains: reverse engineering the human brain to achieve AI; Ben Goertzel and Eliezer Yudk...
  George Dvorsky author
2012-03-25

  Sentient Developments Episode 2012.03.26

Sentient DevelopmentsPodcast for the week of March 26, 2012.Topics for this week's episode: How to build a Dyson sphere in five (relatively) easy steps, how to take over the Galaxy with self-replicating probes, the Fermi Paradox, and the Simulation Arg...
  George Dvorsky author
2012-03-19

  Sentient Developments Episode 2012.03.19

Sentient DevelopmentsPodcast for the week of March 19, 2012.Topics for this week's episode: Raising IQ with creatine and Double N-Back Training, the red meat scare, destroying asteroids with nukes, re-engineering humans to deal with climate change, the...
  George Dvorsky author
2012-03-12

  Sentient Developments Episode 2012.03.12

Sentient DevelopmentsPodcast for the week of March 12, 2012.Topics for this week's episode include the perils of Active SETI, the possibility of downloading something nasty from ET, why virtually everyone is wrong about alien threats, Nick Bostrom's cl...
  George Dvorsky author
2012-03-05

  Sentient Developments Episode 2012.03.05

Sentient DevelopmentsPodcast for the week of March 5, 2012.Topics for this week's episode include the Turing Test, artificial consciousness, and machine ethics; Avi Rubin's recent TED Talk on our increasingly hackable world; nootropics, cognitive liber...
  George Dvorsky author
2012-02-27

  Sentient Developments Episode 2012.02.27

Sentient DevelopmentsPodcast for the week of February 27, 2012.Topics discussed in this week's episode: PETA's lost case against SeaWorld and their next steps, addressing the potential perils of radical memory enhancement, the increasing role of AI in ...
  George Dvorsky author