Season 6, Episode 5 - Time travel, growing better buildings, and moon bases

We start with probably the most mind-bending concept we’ve covered on the show: that of observable time travel. We don’t quite know what to do with that yet, but we did cover a lot of other ground with bio-concretes, building things by shooting clay, synthetic milk, mining and manufacturing on the moon, as well as Meta Ray Bans and their privacy nightmares.

We also talk about hurricane prediction and modelling. We recorded this in the wake of Hurricane Helene that hit North Carolina, but before Hurricane Milton hit Florida. All we can say is look after each other out there.

Otherwise, please enjoy our discussion in this episode.

Sean’s links:

• Larger and more instructable language models become less reliable

• Doxxing with Meta Ray Bans

• Shooting clay to make buildings

• Normal Phenomena’s brutalist bioconcrete lamp

• Things to consider when building a telescope on the moon (Paywall)

Ben’s links:

• An observable, repeatable experiment that demonstrates “negative time”

• Rapid cardiac diagnostics, kind of like a rapid covid test

• Synthetic milk is on the horizon

• Gathering data from hurricanes to model them better

• Honorable mention, a new way to build chips for AI from the molecule upwards (Be warned, this is very hard reading)

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