Episode 46

The ninth of ten episodes in which Juliet and I explore some ideas randomly selected from a mind map I made. Again, this one's rather dominated by me, the topics in question being "faster than light communication" and "singularitarianism". There's also a brief discussion of the appeal of New Age "quantum mysticism", with reference to an earlier theme of "scientism".

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Some relevant links:

• faster-than-light (FLT) communication
• Einstein—Podolsky—Rosen (EPR) paradox
• spontaneous pair production
• Einstein on quantum theory
• scientism
• quantum mysticism
• singularitarianism
• Eliezer Yudkowsky
• Singularity Institute/Machine Intelligence Research Institute
• Stanislaw Ulam
• Ray Kurzweil
• Terence McKenna
• 2012 phenomenon
• mandarinfish Synchiropus splendidus