It’s the return of Lightning Round. Get indoors and cozy for this one.

Lightning Round

• “CGI and AI are going to turbocharge ‘fake news’ and make it far harder to tell what’s real”
• “New, reusable [nanotube] filter cleans heavy metals from water”
• “How farming giant seaweed can feed fish and fix the climate”
• “Climate change no problem, says futurist Ray Kurzweil”
• “Silicon Valley billionaire Stewart Butterfield voices support for universal basic income”
• Keith Ellison is for UBI!
• TEDx: “If You Want to Help Me, Prescribe Me Money”
• “Artificial Intelligence Is Likely to Make a Career in Finance, Medicine or Law a Lot Less Lucrative”
• “United Nations Human Rights discusses Universal Basic Income”
• If you haven’t yet, peep the unstoppable Twitter game of Scott Santens.
• “Wyoming embraces wind energy, and the jobs that come with it”
• In our remarks about automation, I think we confused the following pieces:
  • “Report Suggests Nearly Half of U.S. Jobs Are Vulnerable to Computerization” (based on the Oxford Martin report)
  • “Robots will eliminate 6% of all US jobs by 2021, report says” (based on the Forrester report)
  • “Smart robots could soon steal your job” (based on the Bank of America report)
• Sam Harris’s latest chat with Douglas Murray: “Identity & Terror”
• “MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD causes long-lasting changes in personality, study finds”
• DMT: The Spirit Molecule
• “Happiness is Love — and $75,000”
• “Plants ‘hijacked’ to make polio vaccine”
• “Scientists Found a Way to Stop Aging in Human Cells”
• “Scientists developed a new surgical technique to reconnect sensory neurons to the spinal cord after traumatic spinal injuries…”
• “First implants derived from stem cells to ‘cure’ type 1 diabetes”
• “SpaceX lands another one of its Falcon 9 rockets on solid ground”
• “OpenAI bot beat best DOTA 2 players in 1v1 at The International 2017”
• It’s always worth checking out the latest creation from Boston Dynamics.

Media Mentions

Tom

• Rick and Morty (forever)

Scott

• Jon Haidt stuff:
  • “Two incompatible sacred values in American universities”
  • “On Libertarian Psychology”
  • “The Coddling of the American Mind”

Zach

• The art of Takashi Murakam
• Good to Great by Jim Collins