The meaning of human freedom, the perils of ai and the role of VR in our future

Published: June 15, 2015, 5:31 p.m.

b'Hello listeners! Welcome to a very special episode of the EnterVR podcast. On today\'s show I speak Manish Gupta, James Blaha, Aaron Frank and Steve Gerhman. Come along as we discuss the future of the human species. \\n\\n1:00 Catching up with James and Manish from Vivid Vision. \\n\\n2:40 Catching up with Aaron Frank from Singularity University. \\n\\n5:00 Why game engines are awesome.\\n\\n6:00 How far are we away from being able to control thought and memory? Will VR become the human thought control interface?\\n\\n8:00 Sword Art Online Spoilers start here:\\n\\n11:30 Where does VR fit in, in the eventuality of us having 1 trillion connected devices?\\n(Read the book "What technology wants" by Kevin Kelly.\\n\\n21:00 How will we deal with grieving when we can live longer than any other humans that came before us?\\n\\n24:00 Discussing the universal basic income.\\n\\n28:00 Finding an economic solution to climate change.\\n\\n34:00 Why the universal basic income paired with the Metaverse economy will save humanity from the AI economy. \\n\\n37:00 How long do we have before civilization collapses because of the AI economy?\\n\\n40:00 Why the rise of AI will be bad for the human species.\\n\\n46:00 What goals should we give AI? What are we suppose to do with AI once its born?\\n\\n49:00 Today\'s recurrent neural networks can give you the ability to do amazing things.\\n\\n55:00 Ex Machina spoilers begin here.\\n\\n59:00 What will the first human brain augmentations look like?\\n\\n1:01:00 Discussing transcranial direct current stimulation devices.\\n\\n1:05:00 How much do we know about the human brain in 2015? Discussing Opti genetics.\\n\\n1:10:00 The importance of philosophy in our time. What does it mean to be free?\\n\\n1:21:00 What is the likelihood of AI not killing us all?\\n\\n1:26:00 What would you say to your future self of 10 years from now? Being able to record our experiences and reliving our memories in VR.\\n\\n1:29:00 The business model of the first AI? Using AI for Cybercrime? What is crime?\\n\\n1:34:00 What will human organization look like in the 21st century?\\n\\n1:37:00 (as of June 12th 2015, TPP has been blocked by the U.S House of Representatives). How to fight back corporate interests that want suppress a free and open internet. \\n\\n1:42:00 What does it mean to be a millennial? How will this generation be remembered? What is the purpose of being human? \\n\\n1:48:00 How will we keep up with the pace of change as the future seems to accelerating towards us?\\n\\n\\n1:49:00 Closing thoughts and how to stay in touch. \\n\\n\\nStay in touch with the links below:\\n\\nhttps://twitter.com/Afrank26\\n\\nhttps://twitter.com/jamesblaha\\n\\nhttps://twitter.com/manishiwa\\n\\nsgehrman@gmail.com \\n\\nhttp://www.seevividly.com/\\n\\nhttp://singularityu.org/'