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Escaped Sapiens is a long-form podcast exploring science, intelligence, exploration, and the edges of human understanding through in-depth conversations with researchers, thinkers, and field experts.

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What is money and who rules the world? | Yanis Varoufakis | Escaped Sapiens #46

What is money and who rules the world?

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A Path To Quantum Gravity | Sabrina Pasterski | Escaped Sapiens #87

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Why Does Mathematics Describe Reality? | Carl Bender | Escaped Sapiens #67

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Building A Theory Of Everything | Stephen Wolfram | Escaped Sapiens #70

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The "Self" Is An Illusion | Thomas Metzinger | Escaped Sapiens #72

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AI Psychosis: What We Already Know | Joseph Pierre | ES #94

AI Psychosis: What We Already Know

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Why People Are Not Having Babies (And How To Fix It) | Lyman Stone | Escaped Sapiens #93

Why People Are Not Having Babies (And How To Fix It)

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What Killed the Dire Wolf… And Can We Bring It Back? | Julie Meachen | Escaped Sapiens #92

What Killed the Dire Wolf… And Can We Bring It Back?

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