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Timothy Taylor
Professor of the Prehistory of Humanity, University of Vienna; Author, The Artificial Ape
Why is Homo sapiens the sole non-extinct species of hominin?
Max Tegmark
Physicist, MIT; Researcher, Precision Cosmology; Scientific Director, Foundational Questions Institute; President, Future of Life Institute; Author, Life 3.0
What will be the literally last question that will preoccupy future superintelligent cosmic life for as long as the laws of physics permit?
Richard H. Thaler
Father of Behavioral Economics; Recipient, 2017 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science; Director, Center for Decision Research, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business; Author, Misbehaving
How will we cope when we are capable of keeping humans alive longer than our optimal life expectancy?
Frank Tipler
Professor of Mathematical Physics, Tulane University; Author, The Physics of Christianity
Can rational beings such as Bayesian robots, humans, super-intelligent AIs ever reach agreement?
Eric Topol
Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Translational Science Institute; Author, The Patient Will See You Now
Can behavioral science crack the ultimate challenge of getting people to durably adopt much healthier lifestyles?
Sherry Turkle
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, MIT; Internet Culture Researcher; Author, Reclaiming Conversation
What will time with artifacts that simulate the emotional experience of being with another person do to our human capacity to handle the surely rougher, more frictional, and demanding human intimacies on offer?
Barbara Tversky
Professor Emerita of Psychology, Stanford University
How do the limits of the mind limit our understanding?
Michael Vassar
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, MetaMed Research
How can coalitions of scholars who wish to update the content of explicit common knowledge in order to use that knowledge collaboratively detect and circumvent coalitions which are applying narrative control strategies to preserve arbitrage opportunities implicit in disparities between official narratives and reality?
J. Craig Venter
A leading scientist of the 21st century for Genomic Sciences; Co-Founder, Chairman, Synthetic Genomics, Inc.; Founder, J. Craig Venter Institute; Author, A Life Decoded
Will the creation of a super-human class from a combination of genome editing and direct biological-machine interfaces lead to the collapse of civilization?
Athena Vouloumanos
Associate Professor of Psychology, Director, NYU Infant Cognition and Communication Lab, New York University
Will we ever understand how human communication is built from genes to cells to circuits to behavior?
D.A. Wallach
Recording Artist; Songwriter; Artist in Residence, Spotify
Are there any phenomena for which it will never be possible to develop parsimonious theories?
Adam Waytz
Psychologist; Associate Professor of Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Are moral beliefs more like facts or more like preferences?
Bret Weinstein
Theoretical Evolutionary Biologist
Can humans set a non-evolutionary course that is game-theoretically stable?
Eric R. Weinstein
Mathematician and Economist; Managing Director of Thiel Capital
Does something unprecedented happen when we finally learn our own source code?
Albert Wenger
Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures
How do we create and maintain backup options for humanity to quickly rebuild an advanced civilization after a catastrophic human extinction event?
Geoffrey West
Distinguished Professor and Past President, Santa Fe Institute; Author, Scale
How and when will it end or will it persist indefinitely?
Thalia Wheatley
Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College
How will the advent of direct brain-to-brain communication change the way we think?
Tim White
Paleoanthropologist; Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
How much would surrendering our god(s) strengthen the odds of our survival?
Linda Wilbrecht
Associate Professor, UC Berkeley Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
How can we sculpt how individual brains develop to avert mental illness?
Frank Wilczek
Physicist, MIT; Recipient, 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics; Author, A Beautiful Question
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