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Welcome to the Enter VR podcast! On this episode we are joined by Professor Nicholas Dungey from the Dungey State University Podcast and James Blaha CEO of Vivid Vision.\n\n\nHere is a snippet of some of the things we discussed:\n\n(This podcast gave me a month of straight up anxiety. )\n\n20: WARNING AUDIO LEVELS ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE. \n\n1:25 The challenges confronting the nature of information in the 21st century.\n\n4:30 Is there room for philosophy in Silicon Valley? (capitalism)\n\n7:40 A crisis of alienation is impending.\n\n12:00 The potential power of individuals is increasing thanks to technology. To what degree?\n\n13:00 What are we preparing for?\n\n21:10 How can the centralization of power co habit within the same sphere as democratic institutions? \n\n25:00 How will societies adapt to automation? \n\n31:00 Our socio political systems will become authoritarian partly due to their failure in anticipating the crisis of automation.\n\n40:00 What now? Are we hopeless?\n\n45:20 What will world look like in the 5, 10 years?\n\n49:00 Universal basic income will come once the suffering becomes too much to bear. \n\n51:00 Robot armies will make violent human revolutions obsolete. \n\n54:00 What's the difference between reality and narratives? \n\n59:00 The probabilities of a race war under a Bannon administration? \n\n1:01:00 What is the meaning of tolerance?\n\n1:09:00 Preparing for the worst case scenario for the next 4 years.\n\n1:15:00 What are people going to do once all the jobs are automated?\n\n1:17:00 Integrating artificial intelligence with political systems.\n\n1:18:00 Using VR to simulate political scenarios before trying them out in the real world.\n\n1:23:00 Using fear for good?\n\n1:31:00 How to stop fear from being used against you?\n\n1:35:00 What will happen the day millions of people won't be able to tell the difference between reality and virtual reality. \n\n1:41:00 Creating VR experiences that point out philosophical lessons for humanity.\n\n1:44:00 What philosophical questions will trans humanism bring about? \n\n1:45:00 Would you want to live another 500 years? \n\n1:47:00 Everybody read the "Genealogy of Morals" and "On Discipline and Punishment".\n\n1:48:00 Biggest fears and hopes. \n\n1:50:00 How to stay in touch with professor Dungey. \n\nThanks again to professor Dungey for being a true scholar and gentleman of virtual reality.\n\nConnect with professor Dungey with the links below:\n\nhttps://twitter.com/UrDSU\n\nhttp://www.dungeystate.com/\n\n\nSong in the intro clip is :\n\nI dreamed a dream by Ann Hathaway\n\n\nPlease support the artists!\n\n\n(Views are my own)\n\n\n\nThanks for listening!