27:55 — What families actually want: walkable villages over car-dependent suburbia 35:33 — Raising kids for a future we can't predict: AI, homework, and agency 43:25 — Why building is hard: inflation, red tape, and the Mansion Boedo story 48:07 — The 10-year bet: communities negotiating with nations 53:47 — Asia, China, and who gets to own land 1:06:54 — Minimum Viable Society: an open-source blueprint for a town 1:21:16 — Desire pathways: build it temporary, then make it permanent 1:29:34 — The party-starter theory of community building 1:36:37 — What MVS needs, and doing it all for his son 1:41:07 — A Solarpunk vision: a connected world with the incentives set right

@gillianim writes Supernuclear with her friend Phil. it's about going beyond the nuclear family and pulling your friends and extended family back into your daily life. which is how basically all of humanity lived until about a century ago. the atomized version is the new thing. ep 02 out now 🔗 in bio

01:07 Meet Christine Peterson — Foresight Institute 02:07 How "open source" got its name 06:45 Why naming is half the work 09:28 Two teenagers and the birth of molecular nanotech 12:14 The leap — cleaning the Earth, healing the body 15:40 Skeptics, a Nobel laureate, and the microscope that proved it 16:37 No internet, so they wrote a book — Engines of Creation 19:30 Foresight's thesis: back the builders 23:14 Read hard science fiction (even when it's bad) 27:24 Greg Egan & reading for the future 29:21 The dystopia problem — young people need positive visions 30:57 Good aliens & the case for Existential Hope 34:25 Agartha's pillars, and what Foresight focuses on 37:01 Foresight's first home — AI Nodes in SF & Berlin 38:51 Why decentralization means resilience 41:18 The hard problem — one shared stack without a McDonald's 42:24 Ambassadors, not empires — how new tools spread 44:43 The nomad & slowmad wave already forming 50:20 Aging is the root — the case for longevity science 53:51 Inside the AI Nodes — open doors & in-person energy 58:20 Why Foresight's team became mostly women 01:01:44 The funding problem — money skips young scientists 01:05:22 DAOs, Gitcoin & new ways to fund innovation 01:06:35 Advice to young innovators — Silicon Valley or academia? 01:11:37 Christine's biggest failure — when "nanotechnology" got redefined 01:16:59 Is "Solarpunk" the next word to slip away? 01:18:26 How far are we from radical longevity? "Maybe 20, maybe 200" 01:22:05 Gut feeling & chemical intuition 01:24:34 A scientist on spirituality — a force for good 01:29:10 Make the work fun — play as the opposite of suffering 01:30:48 How to get involved with Foresight 01:31:45 Closing — the most optimistic vision of the future 01:33:16 Goodbyes