The Unnerving Origin of Technosignatures with Caleb Scharf

Would data from an Alien intelligence be lethal for us?

Caleb Scharf joins John Michael Godier to discuss how our data, and data from other intelligent civilizations is alive, known as the dataome.

Dr. Scharf's new book, The Ascent of Information: Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm is out now.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/621175/the-ascent-of-information-by-caleb-scharf/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/author/caleb-a-scharf/

Check out friend of the show, Prof. Brian Keating who has a new book out, Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner distilling his interviews with 9 Nobel Prize winners into actionable wisdom, tools, and life-hacks to release your inner genius! Order it here https://amzn.to/2UPTxOI and tune into Brian’s YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1

00:00:00 Intro

00:00:38 Bio

0:01:23 The Ascent of Information

0:05:38 The Dataome

0:08:32 Exchanging Dataomes with Aliens

00:10:07 The Universe is a Data Storage device

00:14:07 DNA as a storage device

00:18:09 Abiogenesis

00:22:32 Time

00:25:43 Energy requirements for storing data

00:29:43 General AI becoming a machine civilization

00:36:55 Aliens sending dangerous data

00:39:46 Be quiet or they’ll hear you…

00:44:08 AGI cheating at games

00:46:45 The bad paths.

00:50:46 Aliens spreading thru the Galaxy

00:55:58 Interstellar distances

01:02:27 Slowing the perception of time

01:10:04 Prof. Brian Keating Talks to ANNA!

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