The Long Future: Anders Sandberg on Brain Emulation, AI Safety, and Living Forever

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The episode explores the implications of AGI, brain emulation, and human augmentation on humanity's future with guest Anders Sandberg.

The man who wrote the original blueprint for mind uploading on what comes after Homo sapiens.Anders Sandberg, futurist, transhumanist, former Senior Research Fellow at Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, and author of the forthcoming Law, Liberty and Leviathan: Human Autonomy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, joins us for one of the widest-ranging conversations the show has ever recorded. This is a tour through the next thousand years. Anders pulls in memory palaces and atomic clocks, fruit-fly connectomes and Kuiper Belt city-states, drone warfare and Dracula's boredom, AI agents as "fallen angels" of your conscience, and what happens to marriage when both spouses can copy themselves. 🎧 Listen to every podcast⁠ 📺 Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠ 🏠 Follow us on ⁠X⁠ 🏠 Follow Jeremy on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ To suggest guests or sponsor the show, please email: hello@thinkingonpaper.xyz -- Chapters (00:00) Augmentation and Human Potential (08:09) The Impact of Mobile Technology on Humanity (11:51) Accountability in AI Agents (18:25) The Role of Empathy in Human-AI Interaction (25:35) AGI vs. Alien Life: A Comparative Analysis (27:36) Consciousness and Brain Emulation (35:52) The…

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Hosts: Mark Fielding, Jeremy Gilbertson

Guest: Anders Sandberg

Topics covered

• AGI
• brain emulation
• human augmentation
• consciousness
• space exploration
• political division
• inequality

Keywords

• AGI
• longevity
• consciousness upload
• human augmentation
• space colonization
• political division
• inequality

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