Isaac Arthur (@isaac_a_arthur) is a physicist and futurist who runs popular YouTube channel Featured Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur.

Isaac's popular channel has over 270k subscribers and 20M+ views and a legion of loyal, insightful fans, including his own sub-Reddit. Arthur covers a wide range of futurist and science fiction ideas including cyborgs, androids and artificial intelligence, the Fermi paradox and interstellar warfare, Dyson spheres and megascale engineering, quantum teleportation and faster-than-light travel—typically exploring hypothetical scenarios extending to the distant future.

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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The future of interplanetary travel

* What you didn't know about the Fermi paradox

* How humanity will likely evolve as we explore space

* The reason we probably won't terraform planets and where we'll live instead

* Why material science and meta-materials may be the most important technology of this decade

* The effects of genetic engineering on society

* Two paths to free energy for all

* The reason Isaac thinks we are close to a post-scarcity world

* Why Isaac thinks cybernetics/mechanical human enhancement is more likely than gene editing

* How Isaac build the top Science channel on Youtube

* The reason manmade structures are the habitats of the future

* How AI is likely to evolve and play out in society

* Why our education system is failing and how we can fix it

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Isaac: My usual philosophy on the simulation hypothesis is that the question isn't whether or not we live in a simulation but whether or not it matters. Now I tend to think that the rules for simulation will likely be self-consistent you would have physical laws in that simulation that you would expect the simulation to tend to follow because otherwise kind of gives away the game and you know you divorce the rules we observe whether this is the view of us or not we probably should be assuming that me most about how likely life is to evolve, to begin with, and to get to intelligence and technology. Oh, we're just a lot less probable than we think they are and I I don't see us trying to tell from all as much you know forming and people think of it as oh we take this planet make it livable this process that is inherently destructive and I mean seriously.