Optogenetics
Subject in Life Sciences
Optogenetics has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Moonshots with Peter Diamandis. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Alexander Wissner-GrossComputer scientist and founder of Reified, co-host of Moonshots
Wissner-Gross recounts that, inspired by Vernor Vinge's fiction, he suggested to Ed Boyden that he pursue light-actuated brain proteins for his postdoc.
“So I suggested to my friend Ed, for your postdoc, why don't you go work on that?”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301 (Oct 7, 2026) · Listen from 2:19:39
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- Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · 1 episode
Episodes
Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Oct 7, 2026 · 2 h 47 min
Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin, Alexander Wissner-Gross and Emad Mostaque debate the Superintelligence Force, Altman's risk comments, Claude's possible consciousness, open-weight models, robots and the Nobel Prizes.