Michio Kaku: Future of Humans, Aliens, Space Travel & Physics
October 22, 2019
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October 22, 2019
Michio Kaku: Future of Humans, Aliens, Space Travel & Physics
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Michio Kaku: Future of Humans, Aliens, Space Travel & Physics
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist, futurist, and professor at the City College of New York. He is the author of many fascinating books on the nature of our reality and the future of our civilization. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast.</span> If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/@lexfridman">Medium</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/artificial-intelligence/id1434243584">Apple Podcasts</a> or support it on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman">Patreon</a>. Here’s the outline with timestamps for this episode (on some players you can click on the timestamp to jump to that point in the episode):</p>
<p>00:00 – Introduction<br />
01:14 – Contact with Aliens in the 21st century<br />
06:36 – Multiverse and Nirvana<br />
09:46 – String Theory<br />
11:07 – Einstein’s God<br />
15:01 – Would aliens hurt us?<br />
17:34 – What would aliens look like?<br />
22:13 – Brain-machine interfaces<br />
27:35 – Existential risk from AI<br />
30:22 – Digital immortality<br />
34:02 – Biological immortality<br />
37:42 – Does mortality give meaning?<br />
43:42 – String theory<br />
47:16 – Universe as a computer and a simulation<br />
53:16 – First human on Mars</p>
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