Sean Carroll

But the point being that –

I don't usually invite podcasters on my podcast.

I might invite people who are academics, who have some interesting thing to say in an intellectual way, who might happen to have a podcast, but simply having a podcast is not a good enough reason to have someone on the show.

Look, I have Peter Singer on the show.

He has a podcast, but I'm not inviting him on my podcast because he has one.

It's for other reasons, right?

So these days, more and more people do have podcasts, so the overlap happens, and other people don't have this policy that I have.

So I might appear on someone else's podcast many times, and that's perfectly okay.

Ryan Cobine says, even though Ukraine seems to have the initiative and is inflicting tremendous losses on Russia, it is nevertheless true that Russia is now probably the world's second most experienced and proficient country in drone warfare.

Given the cost differential between what was conventional warfare, as the US has demonstrated in Iran, and contemporary drone warfare, the US's withered arms production capacity and the People's Republic of China's dominance in all areas of manufacturing, what is your outlook on the future of war and international power?

Does the drone era make nuclear conflict more likely or warfare in general less likely or what?

I mean, you know what I'm going to say, which is that I'm not a super duper expert on the future of warfare and international power.

I do think that technology is going to keep changing the nature of war, which it always does, right?

Like every generation, war is a little bit different than it was before.

And that's why we have this old axiom about people or old saying about people always fighting the last war, because the next war is going to be different in various ways.

Drones are clearly much more important now than they used to be.

They might be even more important.

Drones used as delivery for bioweapons, which doesn't happen now but could very easily happen, are an obvious place to think of.

More and more cyber attacks could be part of war.

That's a place where AI could level the playing field and allow other countries to sort of