The only acceptable answer to "are Neanderthals human" should be "I don't know, I haven't met one".
This guy contradicts everything that your podcast stands for, not my favorite guest of yours.
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A conversation with physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist, polyglot and polymath - Charley Lineweaver. 00:00 - My introduction 08:57 - Charley’s fascinating early years 12:14 - From an English/History degree to physics 13:53 - Charley’s historic work on the Cosmic Microwave Background 17:34 - Methods of probing deep space 19:51 - Our accelerating universe 22:15 - Dark Matter Candidates 23:20 - The Fermi Problem and the “Planet of the Apes” Hypothesis 28:37 - Natural experiments in the evolution of intelligence 33:38: What can the early appearance of life on Earth...
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10k I never liked this nonsensical notion that we are predetermined by our past in the Savannah.
That's like saying that the calculations of a CPU are predetermined by the factory that it's made in.
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10k Useful primer on privacy
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1k This guy is really hard to listen to, ha misses every point, it's like he's arguing with someone else, a strawman that sounds almost as absurd as he does :/
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1k The Many-Worlds interpretation (as popularized by David Deutsch in his books) isn't compatible with the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics. I would expect the author of a quantum encryption BIP to already know that...
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1k Great show all! Insightful learning all the details that go into setting up these great conferences!
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1k Fantastic episode perfectly framed by Lyn and delivered by Guy! Can’t be bullish enough on #nostr
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Lots of good stuff here! Insightful framing that basically confirms that AGI as a concept is total BS