Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · Sean Carroll

AMA | May 2025

April 28, 2025·3 hr 38 min·5 clips

Sean Carroll reveals the most useful way to use AI—and it's not for writing papers.

In this AMA episode, Sean Carroll shares personal news about his cat Puck's adoption, then answers patron questions on topics ranging from sci-fi tropes and AI's role in learning to quantum mechanics, consciousness, and political engagement. He provides insights into the Many Worlds Interpretation, critiques idealism, and discusses practical uses of AI in science.

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A loose AMA that makes quantum ideas, vermouth, and AI risk feel unusually grounded.

Sean Carroll's May 2025 AMA opens with a humane bit of news before settling into the careful reasoning Mindscape does best: making a hard idea intelligible without sanding off its edges.

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A May 2025 Mindscape AMA opens with Puck's adoption, then moves from quantum language to martini vermouth and careful AI-risk distinctions.

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