I had a plan for this podcast with @waitbutwhy 's Tim Urban, but then it went in a very different, and more fun, direction: vox.com/podcasts/2020/…

What Urban's arguing here is something I hear a lot since moving to the Bay Area: Humanity is on the cusp of genuine transformation, either towards some kind of hyperintelligence or hypergrowth, or towards total annihilation.

The reason so many people can't see it or refuse to see it is we're used to the past being roughly like the future, and so we're unable to see how rapidly things are really speeding up.