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Will AI Make Everything Pointless? (w/ John Baez)

1 h 13 min · 7 jun 2026
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Will AI Make Everything Pointless? (w/ John Baez)

828 views May 31, 2026 Interviews [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5dCPx7NSx0vP2XO0LTqv0_01GMF7gPH0] Mathematical physicist John Baez (This Week's Finds, the n-Category Café) on whether human thought still means anything One of the most wide-ranging conversations I've had. Read my writing: https://substack.com/@micahzarin [https://substack.com/@micahzarin] Chapters: 00:00 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rFzkxI0Li4] Intro 01:19 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rFzkxI0Li4&t=79s] Chords 04:10 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rFzkxI0Li4&t=250s] Doubt 07:26 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rFzkxI0Li4&t=446s] Teaching 09:23 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rFzkxI0Li4&t=563s] Categories 16:32 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rFzkxI0Li4&t=992s] Antimatter 22:08 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rFzkxI0Li4&t=1328s] Meaning 29:03 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rFzkxI0Li4&t=1743s] AI 47:21 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rFzkxI0Li4&t=2841s] Tate 49:25 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rFzkxI0Li4&t=2965s] Heroes 51:39 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rFzkxI0Li4&t=3099s] Chess 57:05 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rFzkxI0Li4&t=3425s] Sycophancy 1:00:03 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rFzkxI0Li4&t=3603s] Consciousness 1:04:42 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rFzkxI0Li4&t=3882s] E8 1:07:13 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rFzkxI0Li4&t=4033s] Advice 1:10:36 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rFzkxI0Li4&t=4236s] Origins

7 jun 20261 h 13 min
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Why Our Civilization Will Collapse Within Decades (w/ Robin Hanson)

Robin Hanson is an economist at George Mason University, the inventor of prediction markets, and the author of The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Brain. In this conversation he argues that our civilization is failing because we broke the engine of cultural evolution, and that the only way out is to let capitalism run more things, which I pushed back on, badly. We also got into prediction markets, why we don't actually want accurate information, authenticity as hidden performance, foragers vs farmers, falling fertility, insider trading, and what young people should do with their lives. 📚 Robin's work: Overcoming Bias: https://www.overcomingbias.com [https://www.overcomingbias.com] The Age of Em: https://ageofem.com [https://ageofem.com] The Elephant in the Brain: https://www.elephantinthebrain.com [https://www.elephantinthebrain.com] 🎧 More from me: Substack: https://substack.com/@micahzarin [https://substack.com/@micahzarin] ⏱️ Chapters: 00:00 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQyRnnYnp7Y] — Hook 00:11 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQyRnnYnp7Y&t=11s] — Intro 01:27 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQyRnnYnp7Y&t=87s] — Philosophy 05:04 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQyRnnYnp7Y&t=304s] — Kalshi & Polymarket 13:56 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQyRnnYnp7Y&t=836s] — Group loyalty, and implausible beliefs 21:15 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQyRnnYnp7Y&t=1275s] — Cultural evolution 27:14 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQyRnnYnp7Y&t=1634s] — Why civilization is collapsing 51:41 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQyRnnYnp7Y&t=3101s] — The incoherence of utopia 57:22 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQyRnnYnp7Y&t=3442s] — Where I tried to defend anti-capitalism 1:16:21 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQyRnnYnp7Y&t=4581s] — Life advice for me

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