Things vs. Humans: the spiteful behaviour of ...

400 years ago on the River Thames a mad genius showed off the world's first submarine. A crowd of thousands including King James watched as Cornelis Drebbel disappeared beneath the murky water, only reemerging after three whole hours had passed.The same genius also came up with p ...  Show more

Fire is the unsung hero of human evolution. We could not have turned into the big-brained, deep-thinking animals we are on raw food alone. The moment two million years ago that our forebears first started using fire to cook, was the spark that started everything off.That's accord ...  Show more

We surround ourselves with the material, the man-made objects, and technology. Sometimes they even become a part of us. Sometimes that is as decoration or life aids. Other times they take a part of ourselves. These hidden things hold their own energies and we never know if that e ...  Show more

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Proving something about AGI is inherently impossible 0:00</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Creativity is not just mixing things together 3:05</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The superiority of explanatory knowledge 7:48</ ...

Sam Harris speaks with Adam Gazzaley about the way our technology is changing us. They discuss our limited ability to process information, our failures of multitasking, "top-down" vs "bottom-up" attention, self-interruptions and switching costs, anxiety, boredom, "digital medicin ...  Show more

In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the psychological, economic and decision theory phenomenon known as ambiguity aversion. Find out how it relates to the Ellsberg paradox, madman theory and the balance of power in our world.See omnystudio.com/liste ...  Show more