What Era Are We Living In? | Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov

0:00 Teaser
3:00 What era are we living in?
3:57 David Bowie: "The Internet is an alien life form."
5:15 Bob: "It's like aliens are approaching, and we don't know their intentions"
6:23 Nikita: "COVID was weird, and nothing has been normal since"
9:02 The lab leak theory
13:58 How COVID killed consensus reality
17:36 Bob's case for international biotech monitoring
19:25 Vaccine geopolitics
24:08 Biothreat from existing AI models
25:32 Bob's candidate: We let machines guide our attention
31:51 Technological progress is like a cocaine high
33:05 How common is the idea that AI will be a big deal?
34:46 AI music is proliferating
39:58 When music is high stakes. Russian street musicians get arrested