#18 — The Multiverse & You (& You & You & You...)

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

Samharris, Currentevents, Politics, Ethics, Religion, Neuroscience, Science, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 29.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2015

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Sam Harris speaks with MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark about the foundations of science, our current understanding of the universe, and the risks of future breakthroughs in artificial intelligence.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast.
0:09.1	This is Sam Harris.
0:11.3	Just a note to say that if you're hearing this, you are not currently on our subscriber
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0:34.6	of our subscribers.
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0:46.7	Today I'll be speaking with Max Tegmark.
0:49.6	Max is a physicist at MIT.
0:51.9	He's a cosmologist in particular.
0:54.7	He's published over 200 technical papers and he's been featured in dozens of science documentaries.
0:59.4	And he's now an increasingly influential voice on the topic of artificial intelligence,
1:03.6	because his Future of Life Institute deals with this and other potential existential threats.
1:08.7	Max has written one book for the General Reader, a book that I found incredibly valuable, entitled
1:13.7	Our Mathematical Universe, My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality.
1:17.8	And we'll be talking about some of that today.
1:20.2	I really enjoyed talking to Max.
1:22.0	We talk about the foundations of science and what distinguishes science from non-science.
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