AMA | December 2025
12/15/20253 hr 37 min
Welcome to the December 2025 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number -- based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good -- and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic.
Blog post with transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025/12/15/ama-december-2025/
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Sean Carroll· Host0:39
Hello, everyone. Welcome to the December 2025 Ask Me Anything edition of the Mindscape Podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. A little bit later in the month than usual with the AMA, but there's a whole bunch of things that happened in the scheduling of a podcast. Uh, as, as many of you know, uh, it's just me here. There's no team. There [chuckles] is no social media apparatus. There's no editor. It's just me doing all the podcasts, which I like it that way. I can control everything. Um, but sometimes you just have to juggle things, and the AMAs came out a little bit late. As, as longtime listeners know, at the end of the year, uh, next week you'll get a little holiday message from me, kind of a mini solo episode, and then we go dark for the one week, uh, that is sort of right after Christmas, I guess, this year. I forget exactly what it is. But other than the holiday message next week, the next you'll