A Different Topic

Mike and John discuss artificial meat, some malware with a great name, and an atomic mystery 35 years in the making.

35-year Atomic Mystery Solved - https://www.livescience.com/64844-quarks-emc-effect-nucleus.html

BabyShark Malware - https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/new-babyshark-malware-targets-u-s-national-security-think-tanks/

Rhett and Link mess around with Beyond Burgers and trying Beyond Meat in other products - https://youtu.be/T6AeO7flGx8

Thumbnail image by Stijn te Strake: https://unsplash.com/@stijntestrake

Our first guest, Matt, joins us for our tenth episode. We touch on the topics of learning, genetically enhanced learning, and living in a fantasy place.

Mentions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGm8qPEzgoc - Finding the Mystical in... Quidditch - Jordan Peterson

Sources:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/574449/harry-potter-hogwarts-apartment-rentals?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter -  Harry Potter Fans Can Now Live at Hogwarts 

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612997/the-crispr-twins-had-their-brains-altered/ -  China’s CRISPR twins might have had their brains inadvertently enhanced

We wax not quite poetic on the topics of games, entangled networking, evolution, frightening AI, and curing DMD through DNA.

Sources:

AAV-CRISPER genome editing: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-019-0344-3

Quantum Communications: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612964/what-is-quantum-communications/

OpenAI text generator too scary to release: https://bgr.com/2019/02/17/openai-fake-news-elon-musk-too-scary-release/

Mike and John discuss lasers in use as private sound transport (from MIT Review), searching for extraterrestrial life, and speech synthesized from brain activity (also from MIT Review).

You'll be surprised where those topics take them!

Other sources mentioned are It's Okay to be Smart and Minute Physics.

Mike and John complain about technology spying on us and some other stuff.

 Mike and John try sorting through some complicated stuff about the nature of free choice. 

Shower thought: https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/ak25vk/thanks_to_siri_alexa_and_google_a_whole/

 Resources on free will research: 

https://samharris.org/the-illusion-of-free-will/

https://www.wired.com/2008/04/mind-decision/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_will

 Mike and John accidentally give some career advice before discussing some wacky crayfish and a shower thought. 

Crayfish episode from SciShow: https://youtu.be/9VuBJDq9li4

Mike and John struggle with the 24-hour news cycle, glitter bomb "fake" thieves, and argue about arguing. 

 Mike and John discuss Artificial Intelligence, Matrioshka brains, and glitter bombs. 

Reference Material: Mark Rober: https://www.youtube.com/user/onemeeeliondollars

Glitter Bomb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoxhDk-hwuo

PBS Space Time - Computing a Universe Simulation: https://youtu.be/0GLgZvTCbaA

Mike and John share some bad dreams, discuss the relationship between sperm/egg fertilization and alternate universes, and there's also a bit about morally perfect dragons.