AMA | March 2026
3/2/20263 hr 53 min
Welcome to the March 2026 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. Enjoy!
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Blog post with questions and transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026/03/02/ama-march-2026/
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Sean Carroll· Host0:39
[bell dinging] Hello, everyone. Welcome to the March twenty twenty-six Ask Me Anything edition of the Mindscape Podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. Uh, various things come to mind whenever I start the intro for the AMA because when I do an intro for a regular episode of Mindscape, I can just talk about what we're gonna talk about in the episode. But the AMAs cover everything, so I sort of randomly pick things, sometimes affected by the state of the world. The state of the world right now is pretty bad in various ways as I am, uh, saying these words into the microphone. So instead of talking about that, I thought I would just mention one of the various things on my mind from a kind of research point of view. I don't like to talk too much about the research that I'm doing that's ongoing because when research is in progress, you never