Chris Mason is a professor of Genomics, Physiology, and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is also one of the founding Directors of the WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction.

He is the author of The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds, and the co-author of The Age of Prediction: Algorithms, AI, and the Shifting Shadows of Risk.

0:00 &#8211; Intro 
2:29 &#8211; How Long Will Humanity Last? 
9:01 &#8211; On Societal Pessimism and Long-Term Thinking 
13:02 &#8211; Aliens! 
17:36 &#8211; The NASA Twins Study 
23:17 &#8211; Nature vs Nurture 
25:56 &#8211; Chris’ Dream Experiments 
27:45 &#8211; Genomics: Ethics, Opportunities, and the Future 
37:38 &#8211; Space Race 2.0: Colonization, Regulation and Planetary Liberty 
40:36 &#8211; Colonizing Mars and Achieving Planetary Liberty 
45:46 &#8211; The Extreme Microbiome Project 
47:14 &#8211; The Earth Similarity Index, Generation Ships and Leaving the Solar System 
53:10 &#8211; Why Do Any of This in The First Place? 
56:19 &#8211; The Age of Prediction 
1:01:19 &#8211; On Chris, Science, Academia, and Big Questions 
1:08:47 &#8211; Synthetic Biology, Cyborgs and the Future of Human Life 
1:10:10 &#8211; Chris’ Biggest Goal 
1:11:06 &#8211; What Should More People Be Thinking About?

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Chris Mason is a professor of Genomics, Physiology, and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is also one of the founding Directors of the WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction. He is the author of The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds, and the co-author of The Age of Prediction: Algorithms, AI, and the Shifting [&hellip;]