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Recorded:Aug 14    Posted:Aug 16, 2009
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Percontations | Aug 16, 2009 | Eliezer Yudkowsky & Scott Aaronson

The DMZ

Yawning at WikiLeaks

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Bill Scher and Matt Lewis discuss the Podesta emails.

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Exiting the earth

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Scholar of religion Benjamin Zeller on the beliefs that led to the Heaven’s Gate suicides. Plus: Donald Trump, American messiah?

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Spaceships and higher purpose

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Mathematician Louis Crane on how the final frontier could unite the world. Plus: Starship building 101.

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Does mind influence matter?

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Philosopher David Chalmers considers whether consciousness has quantum effects.

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Wake up, Neo

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Daniel Kaufman and Robert Wright compare the views of Elon Musk, George Berkeley, and David Hume on the reality of the external world. Plus: One damned thing after another.

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Short circuit your identity

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Meditation teacher Daniel Ingram, author of Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha, on what it’s like to experience radical impermanence. Plus: The pathology of our wandering minds.

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The new hawks

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Bill Scher and Matt Lewis on how the Democrats are becoming the security party. Plus: What’s eating the GOP?

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The enigma of quantum theory

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Margaret Wertheim, author of Physics on the Fringe, on what happens when physics defies human comp­rehension. Plus: Will science ever explain consciousness?

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People of the Screen

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Tech visionary Kevin Kelly, author of The Inevitable, on how the shift from books to screens is affecting our culture. Plus: Parenting artificial intelligence.

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Women as a Marxist class

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Daniel Kaufman explains why Joan Didion considered second-wave feminism infantile. Plus: Why are millennials so idealistic?

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