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.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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