Or… How To Not Be A Horse.Automation and AI promise to usher in an era of amazing productivity and innovation. But they also threaten our very way of life. Partial Transcript: For hundreds, even thousands of years, the horse was humanity’s go-to form of transportation. And in 13...
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SUMMARY: Gordon E. Moore was one of the co-founders of Intel and first proposed was came to be known as Moore’s Law, which predicted that computer power would double every 2 years. For nearly 50 years, the industry kept pace with this prediction, but in recent years there’s...
Zeno was an ancient philosopher/cult member who had some interesting thought experiments regarding infinity.LINKS LINKS LINKS: VSauce’s video on Supertasks: ==================== TRANSCRIPT: Zeno was in a cult. Back in ancient Greece, hero cults were a thing, and kind-of a big thing...
Today I answer another question from my 50-question lightning round video, this one on the speed of light. Transcript: So when we talk about the speed of light, the first thing to remember is that light is just a sliver of the entire electromagnetic spectrum, ranging from gamma rays to...