Foresight Institute Radio

A Special Podcast Series on Zero-knowledge-enabled Cooperation, sponsored by Zcash-Foundation This is a three part privacy podcast series, #ShieldedTransactions , that examines the increasing surveillance of contemporary society, and the effective tech solutions that can help change that. Andrew Miller I'm an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in Electrical a...

Gaming the Future: Technologies for Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation Gernot Heiser Primary occupation is leading research in and evangelizing for the Trustworthy Systems (TS) Group, aiming at making software systems truly trustworthy, i.e., secure, safe, and dependable. Prime application areas are safety- and security-critical cyber-physical systems such as aircraft, cars, medical devices, critic...

Gaming the Future: Technologies for Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation David Brin is best-known for shining light on technology, society, and countless challenges confronting our rambunctious civilization.   His best-selling novels include The Postman (filmed in 1997) plus explorations of our near-future in Earth and Existence. Other novels are translated into 25+ languages. His short stories explo...

Gaming the Future: Technologies for Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation Opportunities for bright futures enabled by bio, nano, and computing technologies are now within our reach. Their proliferation also comes with risks and authoritarian attempts at control. We explore how technologies of intelligent voluntary cooperation can help us navigate the traps. Cryptocommerce enables decentralized, secure...

Have you ever played Civilization?   Glen Weyl is is co-creator of quadratic voting, a collective decision-making procedure designed to allow fine-grained expression of how strongly voters feel about an issue,[2] and quadratic funding, a method of democratically disbursing resources. Kate Sills is a software engineer at Agoric, building composable smart contract components in a secure subset of Ja...

Have you ever played Civilization?   In the game, you’re discovering technologies that unlock new levels, one capability at a time. But not all innovations are equal. Better technologies of cooperation could unlock new levels of progress across the board. Opportunities for bright futures enabled by bio, nano, and computing technologies are now within our reach. This book explores how technologies...

Chiara Marletto is a physicist at Oxford University, and the author of the book “The Science of Can and Can’t”, where she writes about the concept of counterfactuals and constructor theory. This is a new and different approach to physics where the idea is that the physics most of us are familiar with is mirrored in a way that is very limited. There is a large class of things that science has negle...

Juan Benet, Crypto Tools for Pareto(r)opia | Gaming the Future Book Club Chapter 3 (Pt. 3/3) Juan Benet is the inventor of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a new protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open, and Filecoin, a cryptocurrency incentivized storage network. The IPFS Project has grown into a large open-source movement to re-decentralize the web, safeguard our data, and imp...

What's at Stake in the Game of Civilization?  We explore how technologies of intelligent voluntary cooperation can help us navigate the traps. Cryptocommerce enables decentralized, secure cooperation across humans – and AIs. Mark S. Miller is the chief scientist of Agoric, a pioneer of agoric (market-based secure distributed) computing and smart contracts, the main designer of the E and Dr. S...

How can we get to whole-brain circuit maps? Chris Own develops tools that catalyze new technologies and that promote improvement of the human experience. He is an expert in analytical instrument design and development, with specialties in advanced imaging systems and science instruments, ranging from atomic-resolution structural imaging to portable charged-particle based analyzers. Brain mapping r...

How can we better invest in longevity? In this episode of the podcast, Karl Pfleger speaks on longevity investing. Karl is an investor in Aging/Longevity biotech. He is the Founder and Chief analyst for AgingBiotech. Info.  Music: I Knew a Guy by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/m...

How can we better invest in Biotech? Christian is an entrepreneur and investor and the founder of Apeiron Investment Group. He is Cofounder and Chairman of the board at Rejuveron.    Angermeyer believes that over the next 10-20 years longevity will be the centerpoint of health research.  The longevity market is 100% of the population, and many of his rich friends would spend all of their money for...

Which biotech opportunities should we seize? Which risks must we avoid? This is a recording from Foresight's Vision Weekend 2021. Speakers include:  Emil Kendziorra , Tomorrow Bio JJ Ben-Joseph , InQTel Stephen Malina , Dyno  Dina Radenkovic, SALT Amit Deshwar , Deep Genomics Music:  I Knew a Guy by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativeco...

Can we maintain peace despite greatly increased compute & artificial intelligences? This is a live conversation from Foresight's Vision Weekend 2021. Speakers include:  Mark Miller , Agoric Peter Norvig , Google Joscha Bach , Humboldt Rosie Campbell , OpenAI Brewster Kahle , Internet Archive Music:  I Knew a Guy by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license...

What could our human future look like in the very long term? Speakers include: Adam Brown , Stanford Chris Kemp , Astra Christine Peterson , Foresight Institute Gaia Dempsey , Metaculus Robin Hanson , George Mason University Music:  I Knew a Guy by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com...

How will Dweb, DeSci, NFTs, zkps & lex cryptographia impact your life? Zaki Manian , Cosmos Kate Sills , Agoric Jazear Brooks , SifChain Christine Webber , Spritely, Josh Tan , MetaGov Music:  I Knew a Guy by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=...

Anna Yelizarova She completed a Bachelor of Computer Science at Stanford University and a Master in Communication. Anthony Aguirre is a theoretical cosmologist. Aguirre is a professor and holds the Faggin Presidential Chair for the Physics of Information at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This episode is a special episode where we interview Anthony & Anna from the Future of Life Inst...

Can radically new funding options bring nano advances to us faster? Speakers include: Tom Kalil , Schmidt Futures  Adam Marblestone , Schmidt Futures Ben Reinhardt , PARPA Music:  I Knew a Guy by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100199 Arti...

How will NFTs, zkps, DeSci, & lex cryptographia reinvent our economy?  Primavera De Filippi is a Director of Research at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. This episod...

Foresight is exploring a DAO to fund progress in its core focus areas, e.g. by funding Foresight fellows and tech trees:  Led by domain experts, and ultimately open for crowd-sourcing, we're building trees for challenges in longevity, atomically precise manufacturing, brain-computer interfaces, private ML, and asteroid mining. Long-term, these trees may integrate across domains, allowing diff...

Can we maintain peace despite greatly increased compute & artificial intelligences? This is a conversation from Vision Weekend France 2021.  Speakers include:  Ben Garfinkel Jan Goetz Tom Van Cutsem   Matjaz Leonardis Music:  I Knew a Guy by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/mu...

How can we improve science and speed up new discoveries and progress?  This is a conversation from Vision Weekend France 2021.  Speakers include:  Philipp Koellinger, DeSci Vincent Weisser, VitaDAO Niklas Rindtorff, VitaDAO Music:  I Knew a Guy by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/...

“In a 100 years from now, where are we going to be with human health? The science is looking super encouraging. I would be surprised if we can't make substantial, major improvements on human health and longevity significantly within a 100 years from now.”  In the first episode of the Existential Hope Podcast, we interviewed Christine Peterson, co-founder and former President of Foresight Inst...

How can we reach longevity escape velocity in your lifetime? This is a conversation from Vision Weekend US 2021. Speakers include:  Karl Pfleger , AgingBiotech.info Greg Fahy , Intervene Immune Martin Borch Jensen , Gordian  Laurence Ion , VitaDAO   Jose Luis Ricon , Rejuvenome Music:  I Knew a Guy by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommo...

How can we improve science? This is a conversation from Vision Weekend US 2021. Speakers include:  Alexey Guzey , New Science, William Zeng , Unitary Fund,   Allison Duettmann , Foresight Institute,  Evan Miyazono , Protocol Labs,  Lawrence Wu, Atoms Aaron King , Foresight Institute Music:  I Knew a Guy by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creative...