Summary: Cosmologists have a standard set of puzzles they think about: the nature of dark matter and dark energy and so on. But there are also deeper questions, having to do with why there is a universe at all, and why the early universe had low entropy. Anthony Aguirre and I talk about these deep issues, and how tackling them might lead to a very different way of thinking about our universe. At the end there’s an entertaining detour into AI and existential risk.
