Martin Rees Predicts the Future of Humanity and Science! (#366)

What’s written in our stars? Here to read humanity's horoscope is
none other than Lord Martin Rees!  Lord Martin Rees has played
a huge role in my career and is an inspiration to me and millions
of scientists around the world. There is literally nothing beyond
his purview, and our conversation bore this out -- we covered
everything from A to Z: artificial intelligence to zoology! Nothing
was off-limits – we even shared our mutual and controversial
distaste for alchemy and astrology! Lord Rees of Ludlow, the
Astronomer Royal, is the Co-founder of the Centre for the Study of
Existential Risk and an Emeritus Professor of Cosmology &
Astrophysics at Cambridge University. He is the 38th Master of
Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the author of ‘On the Future’ and
10 other books and the 60th President of the Royal Society. Key
Takeaways:  Intro (00:00) Judging a book by its cover: On The
Future (01:48) Reading the Queen's horoscope (03:08) Do physicists
envy mathematicians? (06:46) Why is Einstein so often a target of
criticism? (10:21) The steady-state of the universe debate and
cosmology's earlier days (15:56) Martin's prediction that the CMB
could be polarized (22:02) Theories of Everything. Do we need them?
(29:12) Complex vs. complicated (37:30) There may be some benefits
to the pandemic! (56:09) What do you think about blockchain and
Bitcoin? (57:56) How coins got their ridges (59:51) What is your
ethical will? (1:16:14) Outro (1:26:10) — Additional
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