Dr. Shane Simonsen is a an experimental farmer and speculative biologist who breeds crops that can thrive under zero-input conditions in a post-industrial future. We talk about his vision for the lumbering collapse of the petroleum-fueled present, the rise of the biopunks, and the limitations of our imagination when it comes to military tech, psychological weapons, and the dark art of crowd control.

00:00:00 Go!
00:01:38 Collapse in Complexity
00:04:35 Biotech Civilization
00:11:04 Is Ecology Suspect?
00:19:02 Regulatory Wars
00:36:10 Lysenkoism, hybridization, and making mutants
00:51:33 Use cases for weird hybrids
01:00:50 If farming is so good, why doesn't everyone farm?
01:16:46 Eugenics
01:31:03 Is depopulation so bad?
01:42:40 Moral Codes vs Global Governance
02:01:26 Compatibility of enlightenment and doomerism
02:11:13 the re-emergence of violence
02:22:09 The group of people who wants to live forever
02:33:43 Predictions for the future
02:46:23 Evil Overlord Thought Experiment
02:51:55 Closing thoughts

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MUSIC:

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• At the End of Progress- Dr. Shane Simonsen, Zero Input Agriculture ( Download)
• After Civilization's Collapse - Dr. Shane Simonsen, Zero Input Agriculture ( Download)
• Who Has Time to Understand the Science - Dr. Shane Simonsen, Zero Input Agriculture ( Download)
• Going to Seed- Zero Input Agriculture with Joseph Lofthouse and Shane Simonsen ( Download)
• AGRICULTURE - Zero Input Agriculture Visit Video 2/2 ( Download)
• #250 Manic Fire Monkeys do it Again: Exploring the Wonder of Human Evolution with Dr Shane Simonson ( Download)
• Authority, Violent AI, & Myth of Self - Dr. Thomas Metzinger, J. Gutenberg University of Mainz ( Download)