Anders Sandberg joins the podcast to discuss how big the future could be and what humanity could achieve at the limits of physics.

Learn more about Anders' work: https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

00:58 Does it make sense to write long books now?

06:53 Is it possible to understand all of science now?

10:44 What is exploratory engineering?

15:48 Will humanity develop a completed science?

21:18 How much of possible technology has humanity already invented?

25:22 Which sciences have made the most progress?

29:11 How materially wealthy could humanity become?

39:34 Does a grand futures depend on space travel?

49:16 Trade between proponents of different moral theories

53:13 How does physics limit our ethical options?

55:24 How much could our understanding of physics change?

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