If you have friends or family you’d like to get thinking about cosmology and the like, this might be a nice documentary to stir up curiosity. Despite clearly being aimed at a general audience, I thought this documentary—including interviews of Tegmark and Bostrom—did a surprisingly good job of talking about the beginning of the universe and our place in it:
Also, even though I’ve had all these thoughts before, it still makes me more emotionally motivated to live long enough to see scientific advances on these questions.
[LINK] General-audience documentary on cosmology, anthropics, and superintelligence
If you have friends or family you’d like to get thinking about cosmology and the like, this might be a nice documentary to stir up curiosity. Despite clearly being aimed at a general audience, I thought this documentary—including interviews of Tegmark and Bostrom—did a surprisingly good job of talking about the beginning of the universe and our place in it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyH2D4-tzfM
Also, even though I’ve had all these thoughts before, it still makes me more emotionally motivated to live long enough to see scientific advances on these questions.