Juan Orbea

It’s natural to care about future generations: we may all want the lives of our children and grandchildren to go well, even before they are born. 

If something dire is happening at your company, then that’s the place to be engaged. Nothing else will matter if it doesn’t get addressed.

The U.S. government is pushing hard to fund the development of fourth-generation SMRs and microreactors. The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) has allocated billions of dollars to startups, including $1.2 billion to X-Energy and $2 billion to TerraPower. Similarly, the Pentagon recently selected BWXT to... See more

Girard's point o departure is what he calles "mimesis," the conflict that arises when human rivals compete to differentiate themselves from each other, yet succeed only in becoming more and more alike. At certain points in the life of a society, according to Girard, this mimetic conflict erupts into a crisis in which all difference dissolves in... See more

On this episode, Author and Professor Douglas Rushkoff joins Nate to discuss how human behavior interacts with technology and how we have arrived at a place with enormous wealth and income inequality just as society is rapidly approaching biophysical limits.

To return to the issue of subjectivity, consider: is the reinstantiated mind the same consciousness as the person we just scanned? But it is not easily resolved, or even readily understood. How do we distinguish a process that is conscious from one that just acts as if it is conscious?We can’t simply ask it. If it says “Hey I’m conscious,” does... See more