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Expert Lectures

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Links to lectures by experts in their fields.

In this information age, it is easier than ever to access knowledge in all manner of formats. The simple academic-style lecture yet remains one of the most effective ways of presenting focused research. (Especially when followed by a good Q&A session.)

The information age, with its broad and easy mechanisms of dissemination, has brought with it also an era of noise. Everyone is, or has, their own expert. Let’s try to find true experts, recognized and generally accepted in their fields, to see what interesting things they have to say.

Suggested title format: “Title of lecture” [year, if not current], Name, Credentials and/or Venue. Brief synopsis/description. #topic #subject

Consider using links that go straight to the beginning of the lecture (bypassing lengthy introductions) if possible.

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As soon as inequality in resources tipped over into inequality in power, Goliath-like states and empires, with vast bureaucracies and militaries like our own, began carving up and dominating the globe.

What brought them down? Compounding inequality and concentrations of power, says Luke Kemp, research associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge.

According to Kemp — nicknamed "Dr. Doom" by some of his colleagues — we now live in a single, global Goliath. In this talk, recorded at BESI on September 30, 2025, Kemp explore the ways growth-obsessed, extractive institutions like the fossil fuel industry, Big Tech, and military-industrial complexes rule our world and produce new ways of annihilating our species, from climate change to nuclear war.

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